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Where does “peto” come from?

peto (Galician) comes from Proto-Indo-European (s)peyk- — name of a bird; woodpecker; magpie.

peto (Galician): woodpecker; money box; poor box; pocket

Definitions

  1. woodpecker; money box; poor box; pocket

Ancestry of “peto”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Indo-European(s)peyk-name of a bird; woodpecker; magpie

Words derived from “peto”

  • petar
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