Where does “žrtvovati” come from?

žrtvovati (Slovene) comes from Slovene -ováti, from Proto-Slavic -ovati — Creates verbs out of nouns and adjectives.

žrtvovati (Slovene): to sacrifice (to offer as a gift to a deity)

Definitions

  1. to sacrifice (to offer as a gift to a deity)

Ancestry of “žrtvovati”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Slovene-ovátiForms imperfective verbs from perfective verbs
2Proto-Slavic-ovatiCreates verbs out of nouns and adjectives
Every word from Proto-Slavic -ovati →Every word from Slovene -ováti →
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