Where does “pacynka” come from?
pacynka (Polish) comes from Polish pacyna, from Polish paca, from Polish pacać, from Polish -ać, from Old Polish -ć, from Old Polish ty, from Proto-Slavic ty, from Proto-Balto-Slavic tūˀ — you, thou.
pacynka (Polish): hand puppet, glove puppet
Definitions
- hand puppet, glove puppet
Ancestry of “pacynka”, step by step
pacynka traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Polish pacyna
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Polish | pacyna | lump of mud, clay, rubble |
| 2 | Polish | paca | genitive/accusative singular of pac; third-person... |
| 3 | Polish | pacać | to pat, to swat |
| 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 |
via German patzen
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | patzen | to blunder |
| 2 | German | batzen | to agglutinate by thrusting; to be sticky, soft;... |
| 3 | German | backen | to bake; to roast; to fry; to fire |
| 4 | Middle High German | backen | — |
| 5 | Old High German | backan | — |
| 6 | Middle High German | bachen | — |
| 7 | Old High German | bahhan | to bake |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | bakan | back |