Where does “piws” come from?

piws (Welsh) comes from English puce, from French puce, from Old French puce, from Latin pūlex, from Proto-Indo-European *plus- — flea.

piws (Welsh): purple

Definitions

  1. purple

Ancestry of “piws”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishpuceA brownish-purple color, sometimes more or less...
2Frenchpuceflea
3Old Frenchpuceflea
4Latinpūlexflea
5Proto-Indo-European*plus-flea

Words derived from “piws”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European *plus- →Every word from Latin pūlex →Every word from Old French puce →