Where does “ropovod” come from?

ropovod (Czech) comes from Czech ropa, from Polish ropa, from Proto-Slavic ropa.

ropovod (Czech): petroleum pipeline, oil pipeline

Definitions

  1. petroleum pipeline, oil pipeline

Ancestry of “ropovod”, step by step

ropovod traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Czech ropa

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Czechropapetroleum
2Polishropapus; sleepy dust; crude oil; petroleum
3Proto-Slavicropa—

via Slovak ropa

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Slovakropa—
Every word from Proto-Slavic ropa →Every word from Polish ropa →Every word from Czech ropa →