Where does “побелка” come from?
побелка (Russian) comes from Russian побели́ть, from Russian бели́ть, from Proto-Slavic běliti, from Proto-Slavic -iti, from Proto-Indo-European -éyeti, from Proto-Indo-European -yeti — Creates transitive imperfective verbs from roots.
побелка (Russian): whitewashing; whitewash
Definitions
- whitewashing; whitewash
Ancestry of “побелка”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Russian | побели́ть | to whiten |
| 2 | Russian | бели́ть | to blanch, to whiten, to make something white factitive deadjectival verb of |
| 3 | Proto-Slavic | běliti | to whiten |
| 4 | Proto-Slavic | -iti | Deverbal, iterative; Deverbal, causative;... |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | -éyeti | Forms causative imperfective verbs from roots;... |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -yeti | Creates transitive imperfective verbs from roots |