Food & drink

pepper (spice)

Source:*pьpьrьProto-Slavic · “pepper; an early loan from Latin piper”certain

The soft r of *pьpьrь became Polish rz and Czech ř: pieprz, pepř.

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English

pepper (spice)

Polish

pieprz

pjɛpʂ

CognateSame source — the sound laws connect them.

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Latin under Cyrillic

Russian
пе́рецperec
ˈpʲerʲɪtsinherited
From the diminutive *pьpьrьcь, with the first p dissimilated.
Ukrainian
пе́рецьperecʹ
ˈpɛrɛtsʲinherited
Polish
pieprz
pjɛpʂinherited
Czech
pepř
pɛpr̝inherited
Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian
biberбибер
ˈbiberdifferent word · Turkish biber
Standard-specific words: papar (Croatian) — The inherited cognate of pieprz and pepř.
English
pepper (spice)
English shares this source — English pepper comes from the same Latin piper.