Where does “bašta” come from?

bašta (Czech) comes from Italian pasto, from Latin pāstus, from Latin -tus, from Proto-Italic -tus, from Proto-Indo-European -tus — Derives action nouns from verb roots.

bašta (Czech): bastion; hut on a pond dam; enjoyable food

Definitions

  1. bastion; hut on a pond dam; enjoyable food

Ancestry of “bašta”, step by step

bašta traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Italian pasto

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianpastomeal
2Latinpāstushaving eaten, consumed
3Latin-tusForms the past participle of verbs; Forms...
4Proto-Italic-tus—
5Proto-Indo-European-tusDerives action nouns from verb roots

via Old Czech bašta

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Czechbaštabastion
2Italianbastiabastion
3ItalianbastireTo build, construct
4Vulgar Latin*bastīre—
5Frankishbastijanto sew, weave; to weave, plait, sew; to plait,...

Words derived from “bašta”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tus →Every word from Latin -tus →Every word from Latin pāstus →