Where does “posługaczka” come from?

posługaczka (Polish) comes from Polish posługacz, from Polish posługiwać, from Polish posłużyć, from Polish po-, from Old Polish po-, from Proto-Slavic po- — after.

Ancestry of “posługaczka”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Polishposługaczslavey
2Polishposługiwaćto serve
3Polishposłużyćto come in handy
4Polishpo-Prepended to imperfective verbs to form iterative...
5Old Polishpo-perfectivizing prefix
6Proto-Slavicpo-after
Every word from Proto-Slavic po-Every word from Polish po-Every word from Old Polish po-