Source etymology 1 · variant 1/2
Original entry ↗A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; tree sap. · Anything similar to or derived from tree sap: resin; rosin. · A dark, extremely viscous material still remaining after distilling crude oil or natural tar. · Pitchstone.
From Middle English picche, piche, pich, from Old English piċ, from Proto-West Germanic *pik, from Latin pix. Cognate with Ancient Greek πίσσα (píssa, “pitch, tar”), Latin pīnus (“pine”). More at pine. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Pik (“pitch, tar”), Dutch pek (“pitch, tar”), German Low German Pick (“pitch, tar”), German Pech (“pitch, tar”), Catalan pega (“pitch”), Spanish pegar (“to stick, glue”), Franco-Provençal pouatche (“sap from a pine”) and French poix (“sap”). The adjective is probably back-formed from pitch-black, reinterpreting "pitch" as meaning "intense(ly)".
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These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Root classification mention*peyH-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentionpiccheenm
- Inherited-form mentionpiċang
- Inherited-form mention*pikgmw-pro
- Derivation mentionpixla
- Cognate mentionπίσσαgrc
- Cognate mentionpīnusla
- Cognate mentionPikstq · pitch, tar
- Cognate mentionpeknl · pitch, tar
- Cognate mentionPechde · pitch, tar
- Cognate mentionpegaca · pitch
- Cognate mentionpegares
- Cognate mentionpouatchefrp
- Cognate mentionpoixfr
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