Where does “Balto-Slavicist” come from?

Balto-Slavicist (English) comes from English Balto-Slavic, from English Slavic, from English -ic, from English image, from French image, from Portuguese imagem, from Spanish imagen, from Italian immagine — in.

Balto-Slavicist (English): A linguist who specialises in studying...

Definitions

  1. A linguist who specialises in studying...

Ancestry of “Balto-Slavicist”, step by step

Balto-Slavicist traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English Balto-Slavic

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishBalto-SlavicOf or pertaining to the Balto-Slavic language,...
2EnglishSlavicOf the Slavs, their culture or the branch of the...
3English-icUsed to form adjectives from nouns with the...
4EnglishimageAn optical or other representation of a real...
5Frenchimagepicture, image; frame; first-person singular...
6Portugueseimagemimage; picture; figure; image; image; face
7Spanishimagenimage
8Italianimmagineimage; imago
9Latinimāginem
10Latinim-Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in
11Latinīn-un-, non-, not
12Latinînin, at, on, upon, from (space)
13Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
14Proto-Italicenin
15Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

via English ist

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishistA practitioner or supporter of an ism
2English-istAdded to words to form nouns denoting
3Old French-iste
4Latin-ista-ist; one who practises or believes
5Ancient Greek-ιστήςAlternative form of -τής; -ist
6Ancient Greek-τήςAppended to verbs to form agent nouns
7Proto-Hellenic-tās
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁énEvery word from Latin īn-Every word from Proto-Italic en