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Where does “pīca” come from?

pīca (Latin) comes from Proto-Indo-European (s)peyk- — name of a bird; woodpecker; magpie.

Ancestry of “pīca”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Indo-European(s)peyk-name of a bird; woodpecker; magpie
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