köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó Proto-Italic *ap Latin abder. Latin ab- Latin rādō Latin abrādōbor. Proto-Indo-European *h₂euh₁-der.? Proto-Slavic *-ovati Old Polish -ować Polish -ować Polish abradować From Latin abrādō + Polish -ować. First attested in 1908.
to scratch, scrape; gnaw, bite · to cut a path, pave · to lead a river into a channel
köken: From Proto-Indo-Aryan *rádati, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *rádati, from Proto-Indo-European *Hréh₃d-e-ti, from *Hreh₃d-. Cognate with Avestan 𐬭𐬁𐬜𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌 (rāδaⁱti, “to pave”), Latin rādō (“to scrape”), Old English ræt (whence English rat), and English razor. The short vowel in Sanskrit is a problem. Lubotsky (1981, 1989) has proposed that the loss of the laryngeal in Proto-Indo-Iranian could be…