Where does “рассле́дователь” come from?
рассле́дователь (Russian) comes from Russian расследовать, from Russian сле́довать, from Russian след, from Old East Slavic слѣдъ, from Proto-Slavic slědъ, from Latvian slaidus, from Proto-Balto-Slavic sleid-, from Proto-Indo-European sleidʰ- — slippery, to slide.
рассле́дователь (Russian): investigator
Definitions
- investigator
Ancestry of “рассле́дователь”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Russian | расследовать | to investigate, to look (into), to hold an inquiry (into) |
| 2 | Russian | сле́довать | to follow |
| 3 | Russian | след | track; footprint, footstep; trace, sign |
| 4 | Old East Slavic | слѣдъ | trace, track |
| 5 | Proto-Slavic | slědъ | track, trace |
| 6 | Latvian | slaidus | accusative plural masculine form of slaids |
| 7 | Proto-Balto-Slavic | sleid- | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | sleidʰ- | slippery, to slide |