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Where does “стихъ” come from?

стихъ (Old East Slavic) comes from Old Church Slavonic стихъ, from Ancient Greek στίχος, from Ancient Greek -ός, from Proto-Hellenic *-os, from Proto-Indo-European -ós — Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...

Ancestry of “стихъ”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Church Slavonicстихъverse
2Ancient Greekστίχοςa row or file of soldiers; a line of poetry, a...
3Ancient Greek-ός—
4Proto-Hellenic*-os—
5Proto-Indo-European-ósCreates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...

Words derived from “стихъ”

  • стихотворный
  • стих
  • стихотворец
  • стишок
  • четверостишие
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