Where does “piketo” come from?
piketo (Ido) comes from Russian пике́т, from German Pikett, from French piquet, from French piquer, from Middle French picquer, from Old French piquer, from Vulgar Latin piccare, from Frankish pikkōn — "low-pitch humming noise".
piketo (Ido): picket
Definitions
- picket
Ancestry of “piketo”, step by step
piketo traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via Russian пике́т
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Russian | пике́т | picket (soldiers or troops placed on a line forward of a position to warn against an enemy advance) |
| 2 | German | Pikett | — |
| 3 | French | piquet | picket; A school punishment in which a student... |
| 4 | French | piquer | to prick; to sting; to nick, pinch, steal |
| 5 | Middle French | picquer | to sting |
| 6 | Old French | piquer | to pierce with the tip of a sword |
| 7 | Vulgar Latin | piccare | to puncture; to sting, strike; to pierce |
| 8 | Frankish | pikkōn | to peck, strike |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | pikōną | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | bew- | "low-pitch humming noise" |
via Spanish piquete
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spanish | piquete | prick; shot, jab; injection |
| 2 | Spanish | pico | beak; sharp point; pick, pickaxe |
| 3 | Old Spanish | bico | — |
| 4 | Latin | beccus | beak, bill |
| 5 | Latin | -āceus | aceous; resembling, having the nature of, forming, belonging to |
| 6 | Latin | -āx | ish, -y |
| 7 | Latin | -ium | Suffix used to form abstract nouns, sometimes... |
| 8 | Latin | -ius | forming adjectives from nouns; nominative neuter... |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | -jōs | Forms comparative adjectives |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -yós | Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems |
via English picket
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | picket | A stake driven into the ground; A type of... |