Where does “pelo” come from?

pelo (Neapolitan) comes from Latin pilus, from Proto-Indo-European pil-, from Proto-Algonquian *pi·l-.

pelo (Neapolitan): hair

Definitions

  1. hair

Ancestry of “pelo”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1LatinpilusA hair; An insignificant amount; iota; least...
2Proto-Indo-Europeanpil-one string of hair; string of hair; strand of...
3Proto-Algonquian*pi·l-—

Words derived from “pelo”

Every word from Proto-Algonquian *pi·l- →Every word from Proto-Indo-European pil- →Every word from Latin pilus →