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- Russian · semantic loan fromПетербу́рг
- English todayPetersburg
From Peter + -s- or Peters (surname) + -burg. Doublet of Peterborough. Sense 4 (“Saint Petersburg”) is a semantic loan from Russian Петербу́рг (Peterbúrg).
Words from the same roots
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.