Where does “peca” come from?

peca (Vulgar Latin) comes from Latin pīca, from Proto-Indo-European (s)peyk- — name of a bird; woodpecker; magpie.

Ancestry of “peca”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinpīcamagpie
2Proto-Indo-European(s)peyk-name of a bird; woodpecker; magpie

Words derived from “peca

Every word from Proto-Indo-European (s)peyk-Every word from Latin pīca