Where does “автотрасса” come from?
автотрасса (Russian) comes from Russian тра́сса, from German Trasse, from French tracé, from French tracer, from Old French tracier, from Latin tractiāre, from Latin tractus, from Latin trahere — to run.
автотрасса (Russian): expressway
Definitions
- expressway
Ancestry of “автотрасса”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Russian | тра́сса | route, line, track |
| 2 | German | Trasse | line |
| 3 | French | tracé | past participle of tracer |
| 4 | French | tracer | to draw or plot (a diagram), to trace out |
| 5 | Old French | tracier | — |
| 6 | Latin | tractiāre | trace, score, delineate |
| 7 | Latin | tractus | dragged, having been dragged; trailed, having... |
| 8 | Latin | trahere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 9 | Latin | traho | I drag, pull; I trail; I extract, withdraw |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | traɣō | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | tregʰ- | to drag, pull?; to run, walk |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | dʰregʰ- | to run |