Where does “prosťáček” come from?

prosťáček (Czech) comes from Czech -ek, from Old Czech -ek.

prosťáček (Czech): simpleton

Definitions

  1. simpleton

Ancestry of “prosťáček”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Czech-ekforms masculine diminutive nouns
2Old Czech-ek—
Every word from Old Czech -ek →Every word from Czech -ek →
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