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5 months ago mollusque said:

Russian for 'umbrella', a back-formation from zontik, originally 'umbrella', now 'small umbrella'; from Dutch zondek 'sun-cover' reanalyzed to drop a supposed diminutive suffix. (See Timothy Shopen, 2007, Language Typology and Syntactic Description, p. 49.)

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