Where does “pakura” come from?

pakura (Hungarian) comes from Romanian păcură, from Late Latin picula, from Latin pix, from Proto-Indo-European pik-, from Proto-Indo-European pi- — sap, juice.

pakura (Hungarian): mazut, crude oil, fuel oil

Definitions

  1. mazut, crude oil, fuel oil

Ancestry of “pakura”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Romanianpăcurăoil; tar; naphtha
2Late Latinpiculatar
3Latinpixpitch, tar
4Proto-Indo-Europeanpik-to be angry; pitch; resin
5Proto-Indo-Europeanpi-sap, juice

Words derived from “pakura

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