Where does “Нева” come from?

Нева (Bulgarian) comes from Russian Нева́, from Proto-Uralic ńoma, from Proto-Uralic ńoxe- — to pursue.

Нева (Bulgarian): (the river on which the Saint Petersburg city is placed)

Definitions

  1. (the river on which the Saint Petersburg city is placed)

Ancestry of “Нева”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1RussianНева́(the river on which the Saint Petersburg city is placed)
2Proto-Uralicńomahare
3Proto-Uralicńoxe-to pursue
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