Where does “Pedro Chosco” come from?

Pedro Chosco (Galician) comes from Galician Pedro, from Old Portuguese Pedro, from Latin Petrus, from Indonesian penembak, from Indonesian tembak, from Malay tembak, from Malay timbak, from Proto-Malayic timbak.

Pedro Chosco (Galician): sandman mythological creature

Definitions

  1. sandman mythological creature

Ancestry of “Pedro Chosco”, step by step

Pedro Chosco traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Galician Pedro

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1GalicianPedroPeter
2Old PortuguesePedro
3LatinPetrusPeter
4Indonesianpenembakshooter
5Indonesiantembakto shoot to fire a shot
6Malaytembakto shoot
7MalaytimbakObsolete form of tembak
8Proto-Malayictimbak
9Proto-Malayo-Polynesianti(m)bak

via Galician chosco

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Galicianchoscoblind in one eye; one-eyed; weak-eyed
Every word from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian ti(m)bakEvery word from Proto-Malayic timbakEvery word from Malay timbak