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Where does “Perez” come from?

Perez (Tagalog) comes from Spanish Pérez, from Spanish Pedro, from Latin Petrus, from Indonesian penembak, from Indonesian tembak, from Malay tembak, from Malay timbak, from Proto-Malayic timbak.

Ancestry of “Perez”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1SpanishPérez—
2SpanishPedro—
3LatinPetrusPeter
4Indonesianpenembak—
5Indonesiantembak—
6Malaytembakto shoot
7MalaytimbakObsolete form of tembak
8Proto-Malayictimbak—
9Proto-Malayo-Polynesianti(m)bak—
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