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Where does “wójowaŕ” come from?

wójowaŕ (Lower Sorbian) comes from Lower Sorbian wójowaś, from Lower Sorbian -owaś, from Proto-Slavic -ovati — Creates verbs out of nouns and adjectives.

wójowaŕ (Lower Sorbian): fighter

Definitions

  1. fighter

Ancestry of “wójowaŕ”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Lower Sorbianwójowaśto fight
2Lower Sorbian-owaśUsed to form verbs from nouns and adjectives;...
3Proto-Slavic-ovatiCreates verbs out of nouns and adjectives
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