Appendix:Proto-Indo-European/peyk-

This entry contains Proto-Indo-European reconstructed words and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Indo-European

Root

*peyk-

1. to color
2. to speckle

Descendants

• Balto-Slavic:
  • Baltic:
    • Lithuanian: piešti (“to draw”)
  • Slavic:
    • Czech: psát (“to write”)
    • Russian: писать (pisat’) (“to write”)
    • Slovak: písať (“to write”)
    • Slovene: pisati (“to write”)
• Germanic: *faihaz (“motley, colored”)
  • Old English: fah
• Hellenic:
  • Ancient Greek: ποικίλος (poikílos), πικρός (pikrós)
• Italic:
  • Latin: pingo
    • Italian: pittare
    • French: peindre
    • English: picture
• Indo-Iranian:
  • Avestan: ... (fra-pixšta)
    • Old Persian: ni-pištā "written down"
      • Modern Persian: نوشته (neveshteh) (“writing”)