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Where does “sportovat” come from?

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

sportovat (Czech): to take part in sports, to do some sport or...

Definitions

  1. to take part in sports, to do some sport or...

Ancestry of “sportovat”, step by step

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

Words derived from “sportovat”

  • sportovkyně
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