Where does “piket” come from?
piket (Tetum) comes from Indonesian piket, from Dutch piket, from French piquet, from French piquer, from Middle French picquer, from Old French piquer, from Vulgar Latin piccare, from Frankish pikkōn — "low-pitch humming noise".
piket (Tetum): duty officer, person on-call
Definitions
- duty officer, person on-call
Ancestry of “piket”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Indonesian | piket | watch, a period of time on duty |
| 2 | Dutch | piket | — |
| 3 | French | piquet | picket; A school punishment in which a student... |
| 4 | French | piquer | to prick; to sting; to nick, pinch, steal |
| 5 | Middle French | picquer | to sting |
| 6 | Old French | piquer | to pierce with the tip of a sword |
| 7 | Vulgar Latin | piccare | to puncture; to sting, strike; to pierce |
| 8 | Frankish | pikkōn | to peck, strike |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | pikōną | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | bew- | "low-pitch humming noise" |