Where does “poke” come from?
poke (Middle Dutch) comes from Proto-Germanic puk-, from Proto-Indo-European bew- — "low-pitch humming noise".
Ancestry of “poke”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Proto-Germanic | puk- | — |
| 2 | Proto-Indo-European | bew- | "low-pitch humming noise" |
Words derived from “poke”