Where does “spawacz” come from?

spawacz (Polish) comes from Polish spawać, from Polish -wać, from Old Polish -wać, from Proto-Slavic -vati.

spawacz (Polish): welder

Definitions

  1. welder

Ancestry of “spawacz”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Polishspawaćto weld
2Polish-waćforms verbs, usually of a frequentative or imperfective meaning, sometimes causes a vowel change, most often a or o → e
3Old Polish-waćforms verbs, usually of a frequentative or imperfective meaning, sometimes causes a vowel change, most often a or o → e
4Proto-Slavic-vati—
Every word from Proto-Slavic -vati →Every word from Polish -wać →Every word from Old Polish -wać →