Where does “piská” come from?
piská (Papiamentu) comes from Spanish pescar, from Latin piscor, from Latin Piscis, from Proto-Indo-European *peysk-.
piská (Papiamentu): fish
Ancestry of “piská”, step by step
piská traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Spanish pescar
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Spanish | pescar | to fish; to angle; to get |
| 2 | Latin | piscor | I fish |
| 3 | Latin | Piscis | the Fish, Piscis Austrinus constellation |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | *peysk- | — |
via Kabuverdianu piska
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Kabuverdianu | piska | to fish |
| 2 | Portuguese | pescar | to fish; to remove an object from a body of water |