Where does “ピャチゴルスク” come from?
ピャチゴルスク (Japanese) comes from Russian Пятиго́рск, from Russian пять, from Old Church Slavonic пѧть, from Proto-Slavic pętь, from Proto-Indo-European pénkʷe — five.
Ancestry of “ピャチゴルスク”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Russian | Пятиго́рск | — |
| 2 | Russian | пять | five; second-person singular imperative... |
| 3 | Old Church Slavonic | пѧть | five |
| 4 | Proto-Slavic | pętь | five |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | pénkʷe | five |