Where does “kriminalistika” come from?
kriminalistika (Serbo-Croatian) comes from German Kriminalistik, from German Kriminalist, from German Kriminal, from Latin crīminālis, from Latin crīmen, from Proto-Italic kreimen, from Proto-Indo-European kréymn̥, from Proto-Indo-European krey- — to sift, separate, divide.
Ancestry of “kriminalistika”, step by step
Words derived from “kriminalistika”