Etymology

palochka

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Today it means: A Cyrillic letter used in writing several Caucasian languages. Full definition →

Russian па́лочка
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The story

  1. Russian · borrowed fromпа́лочка“little stick”
  2. English todaypalochka

From Russian па́лочка (páločka, “little stick”), diminutive of па́лка (pálka, “stick”).

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