Etymograph

English

karbovanets

Karbovanets comes from Ukrainian карбованець ‘karbovanets, ruble’, from Middle High German kerben ‘to notch’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- ‘to scratch’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*gerbʰ-‘to scratch’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*kerban-reconstructed
  3. Middle High Germanc. 1050–1350kerben‘to notch’
  4. Polishmodernkarbować
  5. Polish, derivedmodernkarbowaniec
  6. Ukrainianmodernкарбованець‘karbovanets, ruble’
  7. Englishearliest quotation 1928karbovanets

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*gerbʰ-‘to scratch’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*kerban-reconstructed
  3. Middle High Germanc. 1050–1350kerben‘to notch’
  4. Polishmodernkarbować
  5. Polish, derivedmodernkarbowaniec
  6. Ukrainianmodernкарбованець‘karbovanets, ruble’
  7. Englishearliest quotation 1928karbovanets

Earliest quotation: 1928, Gustav Gratz, The Economic Provisions of the Treaties of Brest-Litovsk: “The Central Powers secured the transfer to themselves of…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- ‘to scratch’

photo, graphic, grammar, cinema, crawl, crab, graffiti, graft, graphite, carve, graphene, demography, crawfish, grimoire, ultrasonography, epigraph, epigram, sonography, 81 more

Today it means

noun The monetary unit of Ukraine from 1917 to 1920, 1942 to 1945, and 1991 to 1996.

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

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- / karbovanets

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