Where does “petrello” come from?
petrello (Italian) comes from French pétrel, from English petrel, from English Peter, from Middle English Peter, from Latin Petrus, from Indonesian penembak, from Indonesian tembak, from Malay tembak.
petrello (Italian): petrel of the genus Pterodroma
Definitions
- petrel of the genus Pterodroma
Ancestry of “petrello”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | pétrel | petrel |
| 2 | English | petrel | Any of various species of black, grey, or white... |
| 3 | English | Peter | radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter P |
| 4 | Middle English | Peter | Peter |
| 5 | Latin | Petrus | Peter |
| 6 | Indonesian | penembak | shooter |
| 7 | Indonesian | tembak | to shoot to fire a shot |
| 8 | Malay | tembak | to shoot |
| 9 | Malay | timbak | Obsolete form of tembak |
| 10 | Proto-Malayic | timbak | — |
| 11 | Proto-Malayo-Polynesian | ti(m)bak | — |