Where does “pup” come from?

pup (Romanian) comes from Romanian pupă, from Vulgar Latin puppare, from Latin puppa, from Latin pupa, from Latin pupus, from Proto-Indo-European peh₂w- — few, little; smallness.

pup (Romanian): kiss; bud; something rounded or mound-like; hump,...

Definitions

  1. kiss; bud; something rounded or mound-like; hump,...

Ancestry of “pup”, step by step

pup traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Romanian pupă

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Romanianpupăstern of a ship, poop; pupa
2Vulgar Latinpuppare—
3Latinpuppastern
4Latinpupagirl, little girl; doll, puppet; pupa
5Latinpupusa boy, a child; a puppet; the pupil of the eye
6Proto-Indo-Europeanpeh₂w-few, little; smallness

via Proto-Slavic pǫpъ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Slavicpǫpъbud, navel
2Proto-Balto-Slavicpomp-—

Words derived from “pup”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European peh₂w- →