Where does “пропахивать” come from?
пропахивать (Russian) comes from Russian пропаха́ть, from Russian про́-, from Proto-Slavic pro-, from Proto-Slavic *pro, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *pra, from Proto-Indo-European pró, from Proto-Indo-European per-, from Proto-Indo-European pr̥tós — passed , crossed.
пропахивать (Russian): to plough, to plow, to cultivate
Definitions
- to plough, to plow, to cultivate
Ancestry of “пропахивать”, step by step
пропахивать traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Russian пропаха́ть
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Russian | пропаха́ть | to plough, to plow, to cultivate |
| 2 | Russian | про́- | through, past describing an action of passing through a space or an object |
| 3 | Proto-Slavic | pro- | pro-, for-, through |
| 4 | Proto-Slavic | *pro | for |
| 5 | Proto-Balto-Slavic | *pra | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | pró | toward, leading to |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | per- | before, in front; first; to go through |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | pr̥tós | passed , crossed |
via Russian пропа́хнуть
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Russian | пропа́хнуть | to smell of, to become permeated with the smell of |
| 2 | Russian | па́хнуть | to smell, to have a smell |
| 3 | Proto-Slavic | paxnǫti | to smell of |