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Where does “ryba” come from?

ryba (Lower Sorbian) comes from Proto-Slavic ryba, from Proto-Indo-European dʰǵʰu- — fish.

ryba (Lower Sorbian): fish

Definitions

  1. fish

Ancestry of “ryba”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Slavicrybafish
2Proto-Indo-Europeandʰǵʰu-fish
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