Where does “palaco” come from?
palaco (Esperanto) comes from Polish pałac, from Serbo-Croatian palac, from Polish -ać, from Old Polish -ć, from Old Polish ty, from Proto-Slavic ty, from Proto-Balto-Slavic tūˀ, from Proto-Indo-European túh₂ — you, thou.
palaco (Esperanto): palace
Definitions
- palace
Ancestry of “palaco”, step by step
palaco traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Polish pałac
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Polish | pałac | palace |
| 2 | Serbo-Croatian | palac | thumb; unit of measure, approximately an inch |
| 3 | Polish | -ać | forms imperfect and frequentative verb forms, causes both consonantal and vocalic sound changes within the stem |
| 4 | Old Polish | -ć | forms |
| 5 | Old Polish | ty | singular non-formal second person pronoun thou, you |
| 6 | Proto-Slavic | ty | you |
| 7 | Proto-Balto-Slavic | tūˀ | you |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | túh₂ | you, thou |