Where does “talcenbiws” come from?

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

talcenbiws (Welsh): purple-foreheaded

Definitions

  1. purple-foreheaded

Ancestry of “talcenbiws”, step by step

talcenbiws traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Welsh piws

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Welshpiwspurple
2EnglishpuceA brownish-purple color, sometimes more or less...
3Frenchpuceflea
4Old Frenchpuceflea
5Latinpūlexflea
6Proto-Indo-European*plus-flea

via Welsh talcen

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Welshtalcenforehead; gable
2Proto-Celtictalo-—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European *plus- →