Where does “pigeon” come from?

pigeon (Norman) comes from Old French pyjon, from Latin pīpiō, from Latin -ō, from Proto-Indo-European -ō — Derives nouns from roots.

pigeon (Norman): pigeon

Definitions

  1. pigeon

Ancestry of “pigeon”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchpyjonpigeon
2Latinpīpiōto chirp, to pipe
3Latin-ōsuffixed to nouns or adjectives. Originally a-stem nouns. Later extended to nouns with other stems. Forms regular first-conjugation verbs
4Proto-Indo-European-ōDerives nouns from roots

Words derived from “pigeon”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -ō →Every word from Latin -ō →Every word from Latin pīpiō →