pekʷ-

To cook, ripen.

1. Assimilated form (in Italic and Celtic) *kʷekʷ-.

a. cook, cuisine, kitchen, quittor; apricot, biscotto, biscuit, charcuterie, concoct, decoct, precocious, ricotta, terra cotta, from Latin coquere, to cook;

b. culinary, kiln, from Latin culīna, kitchen, deformed from coquīna.

2. pepo; pumpkin, from Greek pepōn, ripe.

3. peptic, peptize; drupe, eupeptic, pepsin, peptone, from Greek peptein, to cook, ripen, digest (> peptos, cooked).

4. dyspepsia, from Greek -pepsiā, digestion.

5. pukka, from Sanskrit pakva-, ripe.

 

[Pokorny pekᵘ̯- 798.]

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