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Where does “row” come from?

row (Lower Sorbian) comes from Proto-Slavic rovъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic rawas, from Proto-Indo-European (H)rewH- — to dig out, to root.

Ancestry of “row”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Slavicrovъditch; pitch
2Proto-Balto-Slavicrawas—
3Proto-Indo-European(H)rewH-to dig out, to root
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