Etymology

kaputski

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Today it means: broken, broken down Full definition →

English kaput ← German kaputt ← French capot
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*kap-?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*kap-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*káput
  4. Proto-Italic*kaput
  5. Latincaput
  6. Latincapitulum
  7. Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
  8. Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
  9. Latincapitulāre?
  10. Late Latincappa
  11. Old Frenchcape
  12. Old Frenchcapote
  13. Frenchcapot
  14. Germankaputt
  15. Englishkaput
  16. English todaykaputski

From kaput (“broken”) + -ski (faux-Polish suffix).

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