Where does “nieopłacalny” come from?
nieopłacalny (Polish) comes from Polish opłacalny, from Polish -alny, from Polish powtarzać, from Polish -ać, from Old Polish -ć, from Old Polish ty, from Proto-Slavic ty, from Proto-Balto-Slavic tūˀ — you, thou.
nieopłacalny (Polish): inviable, losing, uneconomic, unprofitable
Definitions
- inviable, losing, uneconomic, unprofitable
Ancestry of “nieopłacalny”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Polish | opłacalny | lucrative, profitable |
| 2 | Polish | -alny | forms masculine adjectives meaning -able, attached to imperfect verbs |
| 3 | Polish | powtarzać | to repeat |
| 4 | Polish | -ać | forms imperfect and frequentative verb forms, causes both consonantal and vocalic sound changes within the stem |
| 5 | Old Polish | -ć | forms |
| 6 | Old Polish | ty | singular non-formal second person pronoun thou, you |
| 7 | Proto-Slavic | ty | you |
| 8 | Proto-Balto-Slavic | tūˀ | you |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | túh₂ | you, thou |