köken: From Middle Persian [script needed] (puštībānīh, “support, protection”), equivalent to Modern Persian پشتیبان (poštibân, “supportive”) + ـی (-i, “noun suffix”).
advocate, attorney, barrister, solicitor, lawyer, counsel · advocate (person who speaks in support of something) · government clerk exercising jurisdictional authority
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *wekʷ-der. Proto-Indo-European *wokʷ-der. Latin vocō Latin advocō Latin advocātuslbor. ▲ German Advokatsl. ▲ French avocatsl. Polish adwokat Learned borrowing from Latin advocātus. Etymology 1, noun sense 2 is a semantic loan from German Advokat and French avocat. First attested in 1559.
köken: Per ESSJa, inherited from Proto-Slavic *mitь, related to Proto-Slavic *mitě, *mitъ, *mimo, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“change”). Alternatively, from earlier меть (metʹ, “throw, sweep, motion”), from мета́ти (metáty).
to work (to function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for) · to fit the bill as, to be well suited as (-nak/-nek) · to prove to be, to turn out (-nak/-nek)
köken: Formed from защитя́ (zaštitjá) or защита́вам (zaštitávam, “to shield”) + -ник (-nik).
Etimoloji
From Proto-Finnic *kandattadak (compare Estonian kannatama (“to tolerate, to suffer”), Ingrian kannattaa (“to survive”)), equivalent to kantaa (“to carry”) + -ttaa (curative verb), literally “to have somebody/something carried”. The senses “to support, second, back; to be worthwhile, be worth; to be profitable”, attested since the 19th century, may be semantic loans from Swedish (compare e.g.…