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Where does “पेद्रु” come from?

पेद्रु (Konkani) comes from Portuguese Pedro, from Old Portuguese Pedro, from Latin Petrus, from Indonesian penembak, from Indonesian tembak, from Malay tembak, from Malay timbak, from Proto-Malayic timbak.

Ancestry of “पेद्रु”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1PortuguesePedroPeter
2Old PortuguesePedro—
3LatinPetrusPeter
4Indonesianpenembak—
5Indonesiantembak—
6Malaytembakto shoot
7MalaytimbakObsolete form of tembak
8Proto-Malayictimbak—
9Proto-Malayo-Polynesianti(m)bak—
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