Where does “sprinterka” come from?

sprinterka (Serbo-Croatian) comes from Serbo-Croatian sprinter, from English Sprinter, from English sprint, from English sprent, from Middle English sprengen, from Old English sprengan, from Proto-West Germanic *sprangijan, from Proto-Germanic sprangijaną — he, she.

sprinterka (Serbo-Croatian): sprinter

Definitions

  1. sprinter

Ancestry of “sprinterka”, step by step

sprinterka traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Serbo-Croatian sprinter

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Serbo-Croatiansprintersprinter
2EnglishSprinterA British diesel multiple unit of class 150, 153,...
3EnglishsprintA short race at top speed; A burst of speed or...
4EnglishsprentTo leap; bound; move quickly; dart; simple past...
5Middle Englishsprengento sprinkle
6Old Englishsprenganto scatter something; to sprinkle something; to...
7Proto-West Germanic*sprangijanto cause to spring out
8Proto-Germanicsprangijanąto cause to spring; to cause to burst, to blow up
9Proto-Germanic-janąDerives denominatives from nouns and factitives...
10Proto-Indo-European-yétiCreates intransitive, often deponent,...
11Proto-Indo-Europeanyé-
12Chichewaiyehe, she

via Czech sprinter

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Czechsprintersprinter

via Polish sprinter

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Polishsprintersprinter
Every word from Chichewa iyeEvery word from Proto-Germanic -janąEvery word from Proto-Indo-European -yéti