Where does “посторонний” come from?
посторонний (Russian) comes from Russian ПО, from Old East Slavic по, from Proto-Slavic po, from Proto-Indo-European h₂pó, from Proto-Indo-European h₂epo — from, off, back; off, away; off, from.
посторонний (Russian): strange, outside, foreign
Definitions
- strange, outside, foreign
Ancestry of “посторонний”, step by step
посторонний traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.