Where does “fōngować” come from?

fōngować (Silesian) comes from Czech fungovat, from Czech -ovat, from Old Czech -ovati, from Proto-Slavic -ovati — Creates verbs out of nouns and adjectives.

fōngować (Silesian): to function, to operate, to work

Definitions

  1. to function, to operate, to work

Ancestry of “fōngować”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Czechfungovatto work, function, operate
2Czech-ovatverb forming suffix
3Old Czech-ovativerb forming suffix
4Proto-Slavic-ovatiCreates verbs out of nouns and adjectives
Every word from Proto-Slavic -ovati →Every word from Czech -ovat →Every word from Old Czech -ovati →
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