Where does “человечек” come from?
человечек (Russian) comes from Russian -ёк, from Russian -о́к, from Proto-Slavic -ъkъ, from Proto-Slavic -kъ, from Proto-Indo-European -kos — Creates deadjectival and desubstantival...
человечек (Russian): (little) man/person, little man
Definitions
- (little) man/person, little man
Ancestry of “человечек”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Russian | -ёк | after consonants followed by the soft sign |
| 2 | Russian | -о́к | takes masculine nouns, produces diminutive masculine nouns, sometimes with further sense development |
| 3 | Proto-Slavic | -ъkъ | Forms diminutives from old u-stem nouns;... |
| 4 | Proto-Slavic | -kъ | Deverbal, forms token nouns; From expressive or... |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | -kos | Creates deadjectival and desubstantival... |