Where does “šlepovati” come from?

šlepovati (Serbo-Croatian) comes from Serbo-Croatian -ovati, from Proto-Slavic -ovati — Creates verbs out of nouns and adjectives.

šlepovati (Serbo-Croatian): to tow, to tug, to haul

Definitions

  1. to tow, to tug, to haul

Ancestry of “šlepovati”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Serbo-Croatian-ovatiA suffix appended to words to form a verb
2Proto-Slavic-ovatiCreates verbs out of nouns and adjectives
Every word from Proto-Slavic -ovati →Every word from Serbo-Croatian -ovati →
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