piece
Old French
noun
Definitions
- piece, bit, part
- circa 1170, , :Érec et ÉÉrec et Énide:
Etymology
Inherited from pettia derived from Gaulish *pettyā derived from Proto-Celtic *kʷesdis (piece, portion).
Origin
Proto-Celtic
*kʷesdis
Gloss
piece, portion
Concept
Semantic Field
Quantity
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- piece English
- *pettia Latin
- petia Latin
- pettia Latin
- pièce French
- pieza Spanish, Castilian
- peça Portuguese
- pece Middle English
- peça Catalan, Valencian
- cuit Old Irish
- pìos Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic
- pjesë Albanian
- piece Middle French
- *kʷesdis Proto-Celtic
- *kʷezdis Proto-Celtic
- pissa Middle Irish
- piece xno
- *pettya Gaulish
- *pettyā Gaulish
- *pettyā Gaulish
- pettia LL