@bonifartius @VD15 Apparently no but they both borrowed it from Czech

Roboter
>Borrowed from English robot and Czech robot, a neologism derived from robota (“drudgery, servitude”), with German -er.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Roboter

Робот
>Borrowed from Czech robot, from both the Czech and the Slovak robota (“worker”)
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%BE%D1%82#Russian

There are similar words in Russian like рабочик (worker) so I can kinda get thinking that though

@bonifartius @VD15 @applejack worker is рабочий (rabochiy) or работник (rabotnik) in Russian. but yes, robot sounds close to the word работа (rabota) that means job.

@iron_bug @bonifartius @VD15 Yeah, I remembered it wrong. ий instead of ик

ик is more nouny while ий is more adjectivy so I think that's why

@applejack @iron_bug @VD15

> ик is more nouny while ий is more adjectivy so I think that's why

this sounds fun and i have no fucking clue about slavic languages :D

@bonifartius @VD15 @applejack basically, it's an adjective, meaning "the one who works" but such adjectives are used widely as nouns, especially for professions.

@iron_bug @VD15 @applejack interesting, in german this use of an adjective or verb wasn't that common but is used more frequently now to form gender-neutral nouns especially for the plural case. like "die Lehrenden" (the teachers) instead of "die Lehrer und Lehrerinnen" (the male and female teachers).

@bonifartius @VD15 @applejack the word рабочий is male, singular, nominative case. it has very many other forms in real use.

@bonifartius @VD15 @applejack but the root of that word is раб (rab) and it explodes in very many words that are connected to work in their meaning. in ancient language this root was роб (rob) and it is common for many Slavic languages. then it transformed to раб.