Where does “gwałtować” come from?

gwałtować (Polish) comes from Old Polish gwałtować, from Latin -owac, from Proto-Slavic -ovati — Creates verbs out of nouns and adjectives.

gwałtować (Polish): to insist on; to demand

Definitions

  1. to insist on; to demand

Ancestry of “gwałtować”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Polishgwałtowaćto violate, to defile; to rape
2Latin-owac—
3Proto-Slavic-ovatiCreates verbs out of nouns and adjectives

Words derived from “gwałtować”

Every word from Proto-Slavic -ovati →Every word from Latin -owac →Every word from Old Polish gwałtować →