Where does “ekskavatora” come from?
ekskavatora (Ingrian) comes from Russian экскава́тор, from English excavator, from English excavate, from Latin excavātus, from Latin excavō, from Latin ex, from Latin commūnicō, from Latin commūnis — whale, sea monster; abyss.
ekskavatora (Ingrian): excavator
Definitions
- excavator
Ancestry of “ekskavatora”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Russian | экскава́тор | excavator |
| 2 | English | excavator | A person who excavates; A curette used to scrape... |
| 3 | English | excavate | To make a hole in (something); to hollow |
| 4 | Latin | excavātus | excavated |
| 5 | Latin | excavō | to hollow out, excavate |
| 6 | Latin | ex | A name of the letter "X"; out of, from |
| 7 | Latin | commūnicō | to impart, share |
| 8 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 9 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 14 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 15 | Russian | кит | whale; genitive plural of ки́та |
| 16 | Old Church Slavonic | китъ | whale |
| 17 | Ancient Greek | κῆτος | whale, sea monster; abyss |