Where does “питерский” come from?
питерский (Russian) comes from Russian Питер, from English Peter, from Middle English Peter, from Latin Petrus, from Indonesian penembak, from Indonesian tembak, from Malay tembak, from Malay timbak.
питерский (Russian): Saint Petersburg
Definitions
- Saint Petersburg
Ancestry of “питерский”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Russian | Питер | Leningrad, known prior to 1924 as Petrograd |
| 2 | English | Peter | radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter P |
| 3 | Middle English | Peter | Peter |
| 4 | Latin | Petrus | Peter |
| 5 | Indonesian | penembak | shooter |
| 6 | Indonesian | tembak | to shoot to fire a shot |
| 7 | Malay | tembak | to shoot |
| 8 | Malay | timbak | Obsolete form of tembak |
| 9 | Proto-Malayic | timbak | — |
| 10 | Proto-Malayo-Polynesian | ti(m)bak | — |