köken: Compound of a (“to; at”) + través (“[the] turn”, from Latin trānsversus) + de (“of”). Compare Portuguese através de, Italian attraverso and French à travers.
köken: Inherited from Old East Slavic сквозѣ (skvozě, “through, across”), a locative case of Proto-Slavic *skvozъ (“aperture”). Related to сква́жина (skvážina).
köken: From üz (“face”) + -bə- (“from Persian به (be, “to, towards”)”) + üz (“face”). Possibly a partial calque of Persian روبرو (ru-be-ru, literally “face-to-face”).
the other side, the opposite side, across · the coming (several years etc.), the next (time period) · over there, a place fairly far from the speaker
köken: Two possible sources: * From a nominalization of the 終(しゅう)止(し)形(けい) (shūshikei, “terminal form”) or 連(れん)体(たい)形(けい) (rentaikei, “attributive form”) of the verb 向(む)かう (mukau, “to face”). The modern pronunciation would suggest that the morpheme boundary in the original verb muka.u has been lost. * From a nominalization of the ウ音(おん)便(びん) (u-onbin, “u euphonic change”) form of 向(む)かい (mukai, the…