Word Origin Summary

Πῦρ is attested in Ancient Greek. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. *péh₂wr̥Proto-Indo-Europeanderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• pyroballogy

  English · derived from

• purchiacca

  Neapolitan · derived from

• пиролиз

  Kazakh · derived from

• pyrophore

  English · derived from

• pira

  Italian · derived from

• pirico

  Italian · derived from

• pyruvic acid

  English · derived from

• pyrargyrite

  English · derived from

What You Can Explore

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