Where does “обзатыливать” come from?
обзатыливать (Russian) comes from Russian обзаты́лить, from Russian заты́лок, from Russian -о́к, from Proto-Slavic -ъkъ, from Proto-Slavic -kъ, from Proto-Indo-European -kos — Creates deadjectival and desubstantival...
обзатыливать (Russian): to cut the back of the hair of someone as a part of an old military custom for being unfit for battles
Definitions
- to cut the back of the hair of someone as a part of an old military custom for being unfit for battles
Ancestry of “обзатыливать”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Russian | обзаты́лить | to cut the back of the hair of someone as a part of an old military custom for being unfit for battles |
| 2 | Russian | заты́лок | nape, neck |
| 3 | Russian | -о́к | takes masculine nouns, produces diminutive masculine nouns, sometimes with further sense development |
| 4 | Proto-Slavic | -ъkъ | Forms diminutives from old u-stem nouns;... |
| 5 | Proto-Slavic | -kъ | Deverbal, forms token nouns; From expressive or... |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -kos | Creates deadjectival and desubstantival... |