Where does “dějepisec” come from?
dějepisec (Czech) comes from Czech dějepis, from Czech děj, from Czech dít, from Proto-Slavic děti, from Proto-Balto-Slavic dḗˀtei, from Proto-Indo-European dʰeh₁- — to do, put, place.
dějepisec (Czech): historian
Ancestry of “dějepisec”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Czech | dějepis | history |
| 2 | Czech | děj | process; plot, story; second-person singular... |
| 3 | Czech | dít | to happen; to say |
| 4 | Proto-Slavic | děti | to do; to put, to place; to thread, to pass... |
| 5 | Proto-Balto-Slavic | dḗˀtei | to put, to place; to do |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | dʰeh₁- | to do, put, place |