Where does “объегорить” come from?
объегорить (Russian) comes from Russian Егор, from Russian Гео́ргий, from Ancient Greek Γεώργιος, from Ancient Greek γεωργός, from Ancient Greek γεω-, from Latin -logia, from Ancient Greek -λογία, from Ancient Greek λόγος — to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to...
объегорить (Russian): to cheat, to swindle
Definitions
- to cheat, to swindle
Ancestry of “объегорить”, step by step
объегорить traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Russian Егор
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Russian | Егор | — |
| 2 | Russian | Гео́ргий | — |
| 3 | Ancient Greek | Γεώργιος | farmer, earth-worker |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | γεωργός | tilling the ground; fertilizing; farmer |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | γεω- | earth; earth- |
| 6 | Latin | -logia | -logy; the study of |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | -λογία | Base for nouns denoting the study of something,... |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | λόγος | That which is said: word, sentence, speech,... |
| 9 | Ancient Greek | λέγω | I put in order, arrange, gather; I choose, count,... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | leǵ- | to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to... |
via Russian об–
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Russian | об– | before certain letters |