Where does “powikłanie” come from?

powikłanie (Polish) comes from Polish powikłać, from Polish po-, from Old Polish po-, from Proto-Slavic po- — after.

powikłanie (Polish): complication

Definitions

  1. complication

Ancestry of “powikłanie”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Polishpowikłaćto tangle, to ravel
2Polishpo-Prepended to imperfective verbs to form iterative...
3Old Polishpo-perfectivizing prefix
4Proto-Slavicpo-after
Every word from Proto-Slavic po- →Every word from Polish po- →Every word from Old Polish po- →