Where does “miażdżyca” come from?

miażdżyca (Polish) comes from Polish miażdżyć, from Polish -yć, from Old Polish -yć, from Proto-Slavic -iťь — Denominal, forming masculine attributables from...

miażdżyca (Polish): atherosclerosis

Definitions

  1. atherosclerosis

Ancestry of “miażdżyca”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Polishmiażdżyćto crush
2Polish-yćforms masculine nouns, usually meaning "son of"
3Old Polish-yćforms masculine nouns, usually meaning "son of"
4Proto-Slavic-iťьDenominal, forming masculine attributables from...
Every word from Proto-Slavic -iťь
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