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Zapas

Zapas comes from Russian запа́с ‘stock, reserve’, from пасти́ ‘to graze, to pasture, to shepherd’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- ‘to protect, to ward’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*peh₂-‘to protect, to ward’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Slavicc. 400–900 CE*pastìreconstructed
  3. Russianmodernпасти́‘to graze, to pasture, to shepherd’
  4. Russian, derivedmodernзапасти́‘to store up, to lay in a stock (of)’
  5. Russian, derivedmodernзапа́сzapás‘stock, reserve’
  6. EnglishtodayZapas

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*peh₂-‘to protect, to ward’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Slavicc. 400–900 CE*pastìreconstructed
  3. Russianmodernпасти́‘to graze, to pasture, to shepherd’
  4. Russian, derivedmodernзапасти́‘to store up, to lay in a stock (of)’
  5. Russian, derivedmodernзапа́сzapás‘stock, reserve’
  6. EnglishtodayZapas

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- ‘to protect, to ward’

food, company, father, pain, feed, pope, foster, pattern, fur, companion, apparent, penetration, pastor, patriot, patron, fodder, perpetrator, fad, forage, papa, accompaniment, paternal, paternity, ayr, pasture, padre, perpetrate, patrician, panini, patrimony, père, pater, compere, pav, pantaloons, pannier, 60 more

Today it means

name A Russian army organization.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- / Zapas

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