Where does “pleśniak” come from?

pleśniak (Polish) comes from Polish -ak, from Old Polish -ak, from Proto-Slavic -akъ — Deadjectival, forming nouns denoting a carrier of...

pleśniak (Polish): any fungus of the genus Mucor

Definitions

  1. any fungus of the genus Mucor

Ancestry of “pleśniak”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Polish-akused to form demonyms; used to form various...
2Old Polish-akused to form nouns
3Proto-Slavic-akъDeadjectival, forming nouns denoting a carrier of...
Every word from Proto-Slavic -akъ →Every word from Polish -ak →Every word from Old Polish -ak →