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Where does “рекордсмен” come from?

рекордсмен (Russian) comes from French recordman, from French record, from Old French record, from Old French recorder, from Vulgar Latin recordare, from Latin recordor, from Latin rĕ-, from Latin prōdūcō — passed , crossed.

рекордсмен (Russian): record holder, record breaker

Definitions

  1. record holder, record breaker

Ancestry of “рекордсмен”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchrecordmanrecord holder, usually a world record holder
2Frenchrecordrecord
3Old Frenchrecordrecollection, testimony
4Old Frenchrecorderto record; to register; to recall; to remember
5Vulgar Latinrecordaresecond-person singular present active...
6LatinrecordorI call to mind, remember, recall, recollect
7Latinrĕ-—
8Latinprōdūcō—
9Latinprō-—
10Proto-Italic*pro-—
11Proto-Indo-Europeanpro-toward, forward
12Proto-Indo-Europeanpor-to give birth; forward, through; going, passage
13Proto-Indo-Europeanper-before, in front; first; to go through
14Proto-Indo-Europeanpr̥tóspassed , crossed
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