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Where does “zig-zag” come from?

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

Ancestry of “zig-zag”, step by step

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

Words derived from “zig-zag”

  • zigzaguejar
Every word from Russian зигза́г →