The words in Polish and Slovak for "suburbium", "podgrodzie" and "podhradie" correspondingly, literally mean a settlement beneath a gord: the "gród"/"hrad' was frequently built at the top of a hill, and the "podgrodzie"/"podhradie" at its foot. (The Slavic prefix "pod-", meaning "under/below" and descending from the Proto-Indo-European root "," meaning foot, being equivalent to Latin "sub-"). The word survives in the names of several villages (Podgrodzie, Subcarpathian Voivodeship) and town districts (e.g., that of Olsztyn), as well as in the names of the German municipalities Puttgarden, Wagria and Putgarten, Rügen.