The story
- Russian · borrowed fromсово́к“scoop, dustpan”
- English todaysovok
Unadapted borrowing from Russian сово́к (sovók, “scoop, dustpan”), which starts similarly to сове́т (sovét, “Soviet”) or сове́тский (sovétskij, “Soviet”, adjective).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.