perna
Latin
noun
Definitions
- A haunch or ham together with the leg, gammon.
- (of animals) A thigh-bone, with the meat upon it to the knee-joint, a leg of pork, a ham or gammon of bacon.
- a kind of mussel
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Italic *persnā inherited from Proto-Indo-European *tpḗrsneh₂ (heel).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*tpḗrsneh₂
Gloss
heel
Concept
Semantic Field
The body
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
踵
Emoji
👠
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- *perla Latin
- perla Latin
- pernarius Latin
- perula Latin
- pēra Latin
- Perl German
- perla Italian
- perno Italian
- baderne French
- perle French
- perler French
- perlier French
- perne French
- pernil Spanish, Castilian
- pierna Spanish, Castilian
- piernudo Spanish, Castilian
- piernón Spanish, Castilian
- πέρνα Ancient Greek
- πτέρνη Ancient Greek
- *tpḗrsneh₂ Proto-Indo-European
- perle Norwegian Bokmål
- pernil Portuguese
- *fersnō Proto-Germanic
- perle Norwegian Nynorsk
- पार्ष्णि Sanskrit
- perle Middle English
- perle Old French
- perna Galician
- pernil Galician
- پاشنه Persian
- perle Middle Dutch
- perala Old High German
- perla Faroese
- perle Middle High German
- 𐍆𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌶𐌽𐌰 Gothic
- perna Old Portuguese
- *pā́ršniš Proto-Indo-Iranian
- perula Old Saxon
- perla Slovak
- *persnā Proto-Italic
- pierna Asturian
- *pā́rṣṇiṣ Proto-Indo-Aryan
- paṣní Kalasha
- baderno prv