Where does “napastować” come from?

napastować (Polish) comes from Polish pastować, from Polish pasta, from English copypasta, from English copy-paste, from English copy, from Middle English copy, from Old French copie, from Medieval Latin copia — a wooden vessel made of hooped staves; wooden...

napastować (Polish): to accost, to beset, to dun, to harass, to molest

Definitions

  1. to accost, to beset, to dun, to harass, to molest

Ancestry of “napastować”, step by step

napastować traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Polish pastować

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Polishpastowaćto black, to polish, to smear with paste, to wax
2PolishpastaA soft mixture, paste
3EnglishcopypastaA block of text which has been copied and pasted...
4Englishcopy-pasteThe action of duplicating (text, an object, etc.) by copying it and later pasting somewhere else
5EnglishcopyThe result of copying; an identical duplicate of...
6Middle Englishcopy
7Old Frenchcopieabundance, plenty; transcript, copy
8Medieval Latincopiareproduction, transcript; copy; supply
9Latincōpiasupply, abundance, copiousness, wealth, riches
10Latincoopia
11Latinco-allomorph of con-
12Latincōn-Used in compounds to indicate a being or bringing together of several objects
13Latincumwith, along with; at; -fold
14Old LatincomAlternative form of cum
15Proto-Italickomwith, along, at
16Proto-Indo-Europeanḱómbeside, near, by, with
17Proto-Indo-EuropeanḱeDeictic particle, here; Post-positional...
18Middle Englishkyt
19Middle Dutchkittea wooden vessel made of hooped staves; wooden...

via Polish napaść

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Polishnapaśćto assault, to attack
2Polishpaśćto fall; to drop; to strike; to overwhelm; to be...
3Proto-Slavicpastìto pasture
4Proto-Balto-Slavicpṓˀstei
5Proto-Indo-Europeanpēd-foot
6Proto-Indo-Europeanped-to walk, to step; to stumble, to fall
Every word from Middle Dutch kitte
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