Where does “-owny” come from?

-owny (Polish) comes from Polish -owy, from Old Polish -owy, from Proto-Slavic -ovъ — of, belonging to.

-owny (Polish): forms masculine adjectives derived from prepositional phrases

Definitions

  1. forms masculine adjectives derived from prepositional phrases

Ancestry of “-owny”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Polish-owy-y
2Old Polish-owyappended to nouns to form adjectives; -y
3Proto-Slavic-ovъof, belonging to

Words derived from “-owny”

Every word from Proto-Slavic -ovъ →Every word from Polish -owy →Every word from Old Polish -owy →
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