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Where does “papiery” come from?

papiery (Polish) comes from Polish papier, from German papier, from Middle High German papier, from Old French papier, from Old Catalan paper, from Latin papȳrus, from French -ine, from French -é.

papiery (Polish): papers; official documents

Definitions

  1. papers; official documents

Ancestry of “papiery”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Polishpapierpaper; document, especially diploma,...
2Germanpapier—
3Middle High Germanpapier—
4Old Frenchpapierto murmur
5Old Catalanpaper—
6Latinpapȳrus—
7French-inefeminine singular of -in; female equivalent of...
8French-épast participle root verb suffix of regular -er...
9Middle French-é—
10Old French-éused to form past participles of regular -er...
11Latin-asuffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent...
12Proto-Italic-ā—
13Proto-Indo-European-éh₂—
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