Proto-Indo-EuropeanEdit
RootEdit
*perḱ-
DescendantsEdit
- Germanic: *farwō (“colour”), *furhnō (“a fish”) (see there for further descendants)
- Hellenic:
- Indo-Iranian:
- Italic:
- Latin: pulcher (< *polcro- < *pelcro- < *perk-ro-)
ReferencesEdit
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume ΙΙΙ, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 820