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Where does “pescar” come from?

pescar (Portuguese) comes from Latin Piscis, from Proto-Indo-European *peysk-.

pescar (Portuguese): to fish; to remove an object from a body of water

Definitions

  1. to fish; to remove an object from a body of water

Ancestry of “pescar”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1LatinPiscis—
2Proto-Indo-European*peysk-—

Words derived from “pescar”

  • pescada
  • pesca
Every word from Proto-Indo-European *peysk- →