Where does “pôśmiéwnik” come from?

pôśmiéwnik (Polish) comes from Polish pośmiewać, from Polish pośmiać, from Polish po-, from Old Polish po-, from Proto-Slavic po- — after.

Ancestry of “pôśmiéwnik”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Polishpośmiewaćto laugh at; to make fun of
2Polishpośmiaćto laugh for some time
3Polishpo-Prepended to imperfective verbs to form iterative...
4Old Polishpo-perfectivizing prefix
5Proto-Slavicpo-after
Every word from Proto-Slavic po- →Every word from Polish po- →Every word from Old Polish po- →
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