Where does “zig-zag” come from?

zig-zag (Catalan) comes from French zigzag, from German Zickzack, from Italian zigzagare, from Russian зигза́г — zigzag.

zig-zag (Catalan): zigzag

Definitions

  1. zigzag

Ancestry of “zig-zag”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchzigzagzigzag
2GermanZickzackzigzag
3Italianzigzagareintransitive; to zigzag; to walk in a zigzag...
4Russianзигза́гzigzag

Words derived from “zig-zag”

Every word from Russian зигза́г →Every word from Italian zigzagare →Every word from German Zickzack →