Where does “отдел” come from?
отдел (Russian) comes from Russian отдели́ть, from Russian дели́ть, from Proto-Slavic děliti, from Proto-Balto-Slavic doyl-, from Proto-Indo-European dʰayl- — part, watershed.
отдел (Russian): department, division, bureau, office, section
Definitions
- department, division, bureau, office, section
Ancestry of “отдел”, step by step