Where does “peixe” come from?
peixe (Galician) comes from Old Portuguese peixe, from Latin Piscis, from Proto-Indo-European *peysk-.
peixe (Galician): a fish; fish; trout
Ancestry of “peixe”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Old Portuguese | peixe | Alternative form of peyxe |
| 2 | Latin | Piscis | — |
| 3 | Proto-Indo-European | *peysk- | — |