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Where does “abstrakts” come from?

abstrakts (Latvian) comes from Latin abstractus, from Latin abstrahere, from Latin trahere, from Latin traho, from Proto-Italic traɣō, from Proto-Indo-European tregʰ-, from Proto-Indo-European dʰregʰ- — to run.

abstrakts (Latvian): abstract

Definitions

  1. abstract

Ancestry of “abstrakts”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinabstractusdrawn away from, having been drawn away from;...
2Latinabstraheresecond-person singular future passive indicative...
3Latintraheresecond-person singular future passive indicative...
4LatintrahoI drag, pull; I trail; I extract, withdraw
5Proto-Italictraɣō—
6Proto-Indo-Europeantregʰ-to drag, pull?; to run, walk
7Proto-Indo-Europeandʰregʰ-to run

Words derived from “abstrakts”

  • abstrakta
  • abstraktums
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