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Where does “-ovati” come from?

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

Ancestry of “-ovati”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Slavic-ovatiCreates verbs out of nouns and adjectives
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