Where does “Pécs” come from?

Pécs (Hungarian) comes from Proto-Slavic pętь, from Proto-Indo-European pénkʷe — five.

Ancestry of “Pécs”, step by step

Pécs traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Proto-Slavic pętь

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Slavicpętьfive
2Proto-Indo-Europeanpénkʷefive

via Proto-Albanian penče

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Albanianpenčefive

Words derived from “Pécs”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European pénkʷe →Every word from Proto-Slavic pętь →