Where does “smołowaty” come from?

smołowaty (Polish) comes from Polish -owaty, from Polish -owy, from Old Polish -owy, from Proto-Slavic -ovъ — of, belonging to.

smołowaty (Polish): pitchlike, pitchy, tarlike, tarry

Definitions

  1. pitchlike, pitchy, tarlike, tarry

Ancestry of “smołowaty”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Polish-owatyforms masculine adjectives meaning having a trait
2Polish-owy-y
3Old Polish-owyappended to nouns to form adjectives; -y
4Proto-Slavic-ovъof, belonging to
Every word from Proto-Slavic -ovъ →Every word from Polish -owy →Every word from Polish -owaty →