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Where does “бензопила” come from?

бензопила (Russian) comes from Russian пила́, from Proto-Slavic pila, from Old High German fil — file.

бензопила (Russian): chainsaw

Definitions

  1. chainsaw

Ancestry of “бензопила”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Russianпила́saw
2Proto-Slavicpila—
3Old High Germanfilfile
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