Where does “полуботинок” come from?
полуботинок (Russian) comes from Russian боти́нок, from French bottine, from French botte, from Italian botta, from Italian bottare, from French bouter, from Middle French bouter, from Old French bouter — to grow, swell; to swell, wax, grow; to blow; to...
полуботинок (Russian): low shoe
Definitions
- low shoe
Ancestry of “полуботинок”, step by step
полуботинок traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Russian боти́нок
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Russian | боти́нок | lace-boot, high shoe |
| 2 | French | bottine | boot |
| 3 | French | botte | boot; something resembling a boot; oppression |
| 4 | Italian | botta | blow, hit, shock, knock, attack |
| 5 | Italian | bottare | — |
| 6 | French | bouter | to push; to remove flesh from the skin of an... |
| 7 | Middle French | bouter | to pull |
| 8 | Old French | bouter | to strike; to hit; to place; to put; to enter |
| 9 | Frankish | bautan | to push, strike, beat; to hit, strike; to hit,... |
| 10 | Proto-West Germanic | bautan | to beat |
| 11 | Proto-Germanic | bautaną | to beat, push |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰewd- | to hit, strike; to beat, push; to strike, push,... |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰew- | to grow, swell; to swell, wax, grow; to blow; to... |
via German Halbschuh
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Halbschuh | low shoe, loafer |
| 2 | German | halb | half, halfway; a half-hour before, thirty minutes... |
| 3 | Middle High German | halp | — |
| 4 | Old High German | halb | — |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | halb | half |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | halbaz | half |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)kelH- | to cut; to split, to separate |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)kel- | to bend, crook; bent, crooked; leg, heel, knee,... |