Where does “esplucher” come from?
esplucher (Middle French) comes from Old French espeluchier, from Vulgar Latin *expilucico, from Latin pilāre, from Latin pila, from Latin pīlus, from Latin pīlum, from Proto-Italic pistlom, from Proto-Indo-European pis-tlo- — to grind, to crush.
Ancestry of “esplucher”, step by step