Where does “знак питання” come from?
знак питання (Ukrainian) comes from Ukrainian пита́ння, from Ukrainian -а́ння, from Serbo-Croatian -ати, from Proto-Slavic -ati, from Proto-Slavic -ěti, from Proto-Balto-Slavic -ēˀtei, from Proto-Indo-European -éh₁ti — Creates stative verbs from perfective roots;...
знак питання (Ukrainian): question mark, the symbol "?"
Definitions
- question mark, the symbol "?"
Ancestry of “знак питання”, step by step
знак питання traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Ukrainian пита́ння
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ukrainian | пита́ння | question |
| 2 | Ukrainian | -а́ння | Suffix used to form verbal nouns from verbs; added especially to verbs ending in: -ing, -tion, -ence, -ance, -ment, etc |
| 3 | Serbo-Croatian | -ати | A suffix appended to words to form a verb |
| 4 | Proto-Slavic | -ati | From imperfective verbs, forming... |
| 5 | Proto-Slavic | -ěti | Inherited, stative; Deadjectival, inchoative;... |
| 6 | Proto-Balto-Slavic | -ēˀtei | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -éh₁ti | Creates stative verbs from perfective roots;... |