Where does “morowy” come from?

morowy (Polish) comes from Polish mora, from French moiré, from French -é, from Middle French -é, from Old French -é, from Latin -a, from Proto-Italic -ā, from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂.

morowy (Polish): pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential

Definitions

  1. pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential

Ancestry of “morowy”, step by step

morowy traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Polish mora

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Polishmora—
2Frenchmoirémoiré, watered; shimmering; moiré, watered...
3French-épast participle root verb suffix of regular -er...
4Middle French-épast participle root verb suffix of regular; -ed, -en, -n
5Old French-éused to form past participles of regular -er...
6Latin-asuffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent...
7Proto-Italic-āForms masculine agent nouns from prefixed or compounded bases
8Proto-Indo-European-éh₂—

via Polish mór

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Polishmórplague, murrain
2Proto-Slavicmorъplague
3Proto-Indo-Europeanmer-to die; to disappear; sea, lake, wetland

Words derived from “morowy”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂ →Every word from Latin -a →Every word from French -é →