Where does “tak” come from?

tak (Slovincian) comes from German Takt, from French tact, from Latin tāctus, from Latin -tus, from Proto-Italic -tus, from Proto-Indo-European -tus — Derives action nouns from verb roots.

tak (Slovincian): thus, as such, so

Definitions

  1. thus, as such, so

Ancestry of “tak”, step by step

tak traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via German Takt

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1GermanTakttact; time; bar, measure
2Frenchtacttact
3Latintāctustouched, having been touched, grasped, having been grasped
4Latin-tusForms the past participle of verbs; Forms...
5Proto-Italic-tus—
6Proto-Indo-European-tusDerives action nouns from verb roots

via Proto-Slavic tako

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Slavictakothus, so, in such a way
2Proto-Slavictakъsuch, such a (kind of), of that kind
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tus →