Etymology

peccary

P3E1C3C3A1R1Y4

Today it means: Any of the family Tayassuidae of mammals from the Americas, related to pigs. Full definition →

Kari'na pakira ← Proto-Cariban *pakira
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Proto-Cariban · derived from*pakira
  2. Kari'na · derived frompakira“collared peccary”
  3. English todaypeccary

From Kari'na pakira (“collared peccary”), from Proto-Cariban *pakira.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.