Where does “sportovkyně” come from?

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

sportovkyně (Czech): sportswoman, female athlete

Definitions

  1. sportswoman, female athlete

Ancestry of “sportovkyně”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Czechsportovatto take part in sports, to do some sport or...
2Czech-ovatverb forming suffix
3Old Czech-ovativerb forming suffix
4Proto-Slavic-ovatiCreates verbs out of nouns and adjectives
Every word from Proto-Slavic -ovati →Every word from Czech -ovat →Every word from Old Czech -ovati →