piste
English
noun
Definitions
- (skiing) A downhill trail.
- (fencing) The field of play of a fencing match.
- (archaic) The track left by somebody riding a horse.
Etymology
Borrowed from French piste (track) root from Proto-Indo-European *peys- (crush, grind).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*peys-
Gloss
crush, grind
Concept
Semantic Field
Food and drink
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Pilumnus Latin
- pilum Latin
- pinso Latin
- pinsāre Latin
- pistillum Latin
- pistrīnum Latin
- pistōrem Latin
- pīlum Latin
- pīnsus Latin
- pīnsō Latin
- Piste German
- baciapile Italian
- pigiata Italian
- pista Italian
- piste Dutch, Flemish
- pistard French
- piste French
- pister French
- *peys- Proto-Indo-European
- *pis-en-om Proto-Indo-European
- *pěstъ Proto-Slavic
- *pьxati Proto-Slavic
- πίστα Greek (modern)
- pisti Lithuanian
- *piṣáti Proto-Indo-Aryan
- пихати Old East Slavic
- *paiš- Proto-Iranian