Where does “tek-” come from?

tek- (Proto-Balto-Slavic) comes from Proto-Indo-European tekʷ- — to run, to flow.

Ancestry of “tek-”, step by step

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	Proto-Indo-European	tekʷ-	to run, to flow

Words derived from “tek-”

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