Does прятки, the Russian word for the game hide and seek, come from пяток (five), пятка (heel), or something else?
My guess is пяток, because of counting from 1 to 5.
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4It's like assume that what "frivolous" is related to "five" - why on earth "r" would be gone ;) – shabunc Mar 22 '16 at 01:01
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1I just noticed actually that прятки contains a 'р', whereas пяток and пятка don't. I think this confusion was caused as I was typing прятки into Wiktionary's search field. They don't have a page for прятки, so пятки shows up as the spelled out version. My eyes are apparently still getting used to parsing the Cyrillic alphabet, because I didn't notice the difference and clicked on пятки, leading me to пяток and пятка. :) – ycele Mar 22 '16 at 17:55
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Neither. This word derives from the verb "прятаться", which translates as "to hide (oneself)".
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Vilmar is right. "pryatki" word is from "pryatat'sya". and it has nothing to do with counting and heels))) you can count up to 100))) – AI I Mar 21 '16 at 15:44
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