köken: Might come from Old Iranian *ham-pauγa- or *ham-pūγa- and be the Iranian correspondence of Sanskrit पूग (pūga, “multitude”), Ardhamagadhi Prakrit 𑀧𑀽𑀳 (pūha, “crowd”) (compare Ancient Greek πῡγή (pūgḗ, “buttocks”)). Related to Old Armenian ամբոխ (ambox), an Iranian borrowing.
köken: Compound of 人(ひと) (hito, “person”) + 込(こ)み (komi, 連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 込(こ)む (komu, “to go into, be full of, have a lot of”).).
köken: Related to Russian да́вка (dávka), дави́ть (davítʹ). Omitting several steps, from Proto-Slavic *daviti, whence also Czech dávit (which, however, had lost the meaning to press). Compare typologically Polish ciżba, ścisk (<~ ciskać, akin to ти́скать (tískatʹ)); Polish tłok, Russian толчея́ (tolčejá) (akin to толка́ть (tolkátʹ)); English throng (<<~ Proto-Germanic *þrinhwaną); English crowd. Also…
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰrekʷ-der.? Proto-Italic *frekʷents Latin frequens Proto-Indo-European *-yós Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Latin frequentia From frequens + -ia.