Where does “kʷenkʷe” come from?

kʷenkʷe (Proto-Italic) comes from Proto-Indo-European pénkʷe — five.

kʷenkʷe (Proto-Italic): five

Definitions

  1. five

Ancestry of “kʷenkʷe”, step by step

kʷenkʷe traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Proto-Indo-European pénkʷe

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Indo-Europeanpénkʷefive

via Indo-European *pénkʷe

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Indo-European*pénkʷe

Words derived from “kʷenkʷe

Every word from Proto-Indo-European pénkʷe