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Where does “pwījos” come from?

pwījos (Proto-Italic) comes from Proto-Indo-European puHyós, from Proto-Indo-European pewH- — to be clean, pure.

pwījos (Proto-Italic): pious, devout

Definitions

  1. pious, devout

Ancestry of “pwījos”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Indo-EuropeanpuHyóspurifying
2Proto-Indo-EuropeanpewH-to be clean, pure

Words derived from “pwījos”

  • pious
  • impious
  • impiety
  • expiation
  • piously
  • expiate
  • impiously
  • inexpiable
  • piousness
  • Piarist
  • impiousness
  • expiable
  • inexpiably
  • ultrapious
  • inexpiableness
  • expiateth
  • expiatest
  • expiandus
  • pians
  • piaturus
  • piatus
  • piandus
  • pior
  • expiate
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