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Where does “šroubovat” come from?

šroubovat (Czech) comes from Czech -ovat, from Old Czech -ovati, from Proto-Slavic -ovati — Creates verbs out of nouns and adjectives.

šroubovat (Czech): to screw

Definitions

  1. to screw

Ancestry of “šroubovat”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Czech-ovatverb forming suffix
2Old Czech-ovati—
3Proto-Slavic-ovatiCreates verbs out of nouns and adjectives
Every word from Proto-Slavic -ovati →