Where does “Александровская сопка” come from?
Александровская сопка (Russian) comes from Russian алекса́ндровский, from Russian -о́вский, from Russian -о́в, from Old East Slavic -овъ, from Proto-Slavic -ovъ — of, belonging to.
Ancestry of “Александровская сопка”, step by step
Александровская сопка traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Russian алекса́ндровский
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Russian | алекса́ндровский | Alexander's |
| 2 | Russian | -о́вский | 's, -ian, -ic, -ish adjectival suffix forming |
| 3 | Russian | -о́в | Genitive plural desinence of most hard-stem masculine nouns |
| 4 | Old East Slavic | -овъ | — |
| 5 | Proto-Slavic | -ovъ | of, belonging to |
via Russian со́пка
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Russian | со́пка | knoll, hill, mound |