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Where does “Bite” come from?

Bite (Latvian) comes from Latvian bite, from Proto-Indo-European bʰī- — to hit, to pierce.

Ancestry of “Bite”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latvianbitebee
2Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰī-to hit, to pierce
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