Etymology

starosta

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Today it means: In Russia, the head man of a village community. Full definition →

Russian ста́роста ← Polish starosta ← Proto-Slavic *starosta
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  1. Proto-Slavic · derived from*starosta
  2. Polish · borrowed fromstarosta
  3. Russian · borrowed fromста́роста
  4. English todaystarosta

From Russian ста́роста (stárosta) and Polish starosta, both ultimately from Proto-Slavic *starosta, from *starostь (“old age”) + *-a (suffix forming agent nouns).

Words from the same roots

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.