Where does “picchettatura” come from?
picchettatura (Italian) comes from Italian picchettare, from Italian picchetto, 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".
picchettatura (Italian): staking out
Ancestry of “picchettatura”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Italian | picchettare | to stake out; to picket |
| 2 | Italian | picchetto | stake, peg; picket; first-person singular present... |
| 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" |