Where does “carpe” come from?

carpe (Occitan) comes from Latin carpinus, from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂er-.

Ancestry of “carpe”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1LatincarpinusHornbeam; European hornbeam; a variety of...
2Proto-Indo-European*kh₂er-

Words derived from “carpe

Every word from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂er-Every word from Latin carpinus
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