Where does “Poręba” come from?

Poręba (Polish) comes from Polish porąbać, from Polish po-, from Old Polish po-, from Proto-Slavic po- — after.

Poręba (Polish): man-made clearing

Definitions

  1. man-made clearing

Ancestry of “Poręba”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Polishporąbaćto chop up, to hack
2Polishpo-Prepended to imperfective verbs to form iterative...
3Old Polishpo-perfectivizing prefix
4Proto-Slavicpo-after
Every word from Proto-Slavic po- →Every word from Polish po- →Every word from Old Polish po- →
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