Where does “янки” come from?
янки (Russian) comes from English yankee, from Dutch Janke, from Dutch Jan, from Norwegian Bokmål Johannes, from Icelandic Jóhannes, from Latin Iōhannēs, from Latin Iōannēs, from Ancient Greek Ἰωάννης.
янки (Russian): Yankee
Ancestry of “янки”, step by step