Where does “бідняка” come from?
бідняка (Ukrainian) comes from Ukrainian -я́ка, from Ukrainian -а, from Proto-Slavic -ja, from Proto-Indo-European -yeh₂.
бідняка (Ukrainian): poor fellow, poor devil, poor thing
Definitions
- poor fellow, poor devil, poor thing
Ancestry of “бідняка”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Ukrainian | -я́ка | er |
| 2 | Ukrainian | -а | used to form feminine deverbal nouns denoting a result, process or an abstract concept |
| 3 | Proto-Slavic | -ja | Suffix creating feminine action nouns, usually... |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | -yeh₂ | — |