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Where does “эвакуировать” come from?

эвакуировать (Russian) comes from German evakuieren, from French évacuer, from Old French evacuer, from Latin ēvacuō, from Latin ēx-, from Proto-Indo-European eǵ-.

эвакуировать (Russian): to evacuate; to tow away

Definitions

  1. to evacuate; to tow away

Ancestry of “эвакуировать”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Germanevakuierento evacuate
2Frenchévacuerto evacuate
3Old Frenchevacuerto evacuate; to clear the intestines of fecal...
4Latinēvacuō—
5Latinēx-—
6Proto-Indo-Europeaneǵ-—
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