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Where does “pekʷ-” come from?

pekʷ- (Proto-Indo-European) comes from Proto-Indo-European h₃-ép-kʷ-.

pekʷ- (Proto-Indo-European): to cook; to ripen

Definitions

  1. to cook; to ripen

Ancestry of “pekʷ-”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Indo-Europeanh₃-ép-kʷ-—

Words derived from “pekʷ-”

  • kitchen
  • cook
  • cooking
  • cooked
  • biscuits
  • biscuit
  • cuisine
  • culinary
  • kiln
  • pumpkin
  • precocious
  • cookery
  • melon
  • apricot
  • watermelon
  • cooker
  • concoction
  • cookbook
  • decoction
  • peptic
  • concoct
  • dyspeptic
  • precocity
  • kitchenette
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