köken: From Middle High German botech, boteche, Old High German botega, potacha (“large barrel”) (9th century). Primarily Upper German, likely loaned from a Late Latin variant of apothēca (“storage room, wine cellar”), in Middle Latin also "barrel, vessel, container", making it a doublet of Apotheke, Bodega, and Boutique, or from Latin butica, Late Latin buttis (“barrel”). The Old High German word was…
köken: From Middle Persian 𐭯𐭮 (ps /pas/, “then, afterwards, behind”), from Old Persian 𐎱𐎿𐎠 (p-s-a /pasā/), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *pasčáH, from Proto-Indo-European *pos-(sḱ)-kʷéh₁.
köken: From Proto-Common Turkic *kerü (“back”). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰚𐰃𐰼𐰇 (kerü, “back, backward”); Kazakh кері (kerı), Kyrgyz кери (keri), Turkish geri (“back, backward”), etc.
to back away, step backward, retreat, backpedal (to move in a direction opposite where one is facing) · to back (of cars, trains, etc. to go in the reverse direction) · to back out (to withdraw from something one has promised to do)
köken: From Middle Danish tillbaghe, originally a preposition phrase with til (“to”) and the old genitive plural of bag (“back”). Compare Swedish tillbaka, Icelandic til baka, Norwegian tilbake. A similar formation, with a different noun, in German zurück, Dutch terug, Low German torügg.
Inherited from Malay موندور (mundur), from Javanese ꦩꦸꦤ꧀ꦢꦸꦂ (mundur, “to move backwards, to retreat”), from Old Javanese mundur (“to retreat, to fall back, to retire, to withdraw”). Reconstructed as undur + meng-. Doublet of mengundur.