pescar
Portuguese
/pes.ˈka(ɹ)/, /pes.ˈka(ɻ)/
verb
Definitions
- to fish try to catch fish
- to remove an object from a body of water
- to fish attempt to find an object by searching among other objects
Etymology
Inherited from Old Portuguese pescar inherited from Latin *piscāre, piscārī derived from Proto-Indo-European *peysḱ- (fish).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*peysḱ-
Gloss
fish
Concept
Semantic Field
Animals
Ontological Category
Classifier
Kanji
魚
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- fish English
- *piscāre Latin
- piscis Latin
- piscis, piscem Latin
- pisciōnem, *pisciō Latin
- piscārī Latin
- pescare Italian
- pescar Spanish, Castilian
- *peysḱ- Proto-Indo-European
- *pisḱis Proto-Indo-European
- *fiskaz Proto-Germanic
- peschier Old French
- pescar Galician
- pescar Old Portuguese
- *ɸēskos Proto-Celtic
- pescar Asturian
- pescjâ Friulian
- pescar Old Occitan
- piská Papiamentu
- peská Kabuverdianu
- piska Kabuverdianu
- pascà Istriot