Where does “утапливать” come from?
утапливать (Russian) comes from Russian утопи́ть, from Russian у-, from Proto-Slavic u- — away.
Ancestry of “утапливать”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Russian | утопи́ть | — |
| 2 | Russian | у- | away; with a more concrete purpose |
| 3 | Proto-Slavic | u- | away |