Where does “pirozhok” come from?
pirozhok (English) comes from Russian пирожо́к, from Russian -о́к, from Proto-Slavic -ъkъ, from Proto-Slavic -kъ, from Proto-Indo-European -kos — Creates deadjectival and desubstantival...
pirozhok (English): singular of pirozhki - Russian пирожки́
Definitions
- singular of pirozhki - Russian пирожки́
Ancestry of “pirozhok”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Russian | пирожо́к | Russian pastry (a small pastry baked with any sort of filling, from meats, fish, eggs, rice, cabbage or mushrooms to all kinds of fruit, cottage cheese, raisins or nuts), pirozhki |
| 2 | Russian | -о́к | takes masculine nouns, produces diminutive masculine nouns, sometimes with further sense development |
| 3 | Proto-Slavic | -ъkъ | Forms diminutives from old u-stem nouns;... |
| 4 | Proto-Slavic | -kъ | Deverbal, forms token nouns; From expressive or... |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | -kos | Creates deadjectival and desubstantival... |