Etymology

bigos

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Today it means: A traditional Polish stew containing cabbage and meat Full definition →

Polish bigos ← German Beiguss ← Middle High German bī
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₁ep-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₁éps
  3. Proto-Indo-European*h₁épi
  4. Proto-Indo-European*h₁pi
  5. Proto-Germanic*bi
  6. Proto-West Germanic*bī
  7. Old High Germanbī
  8. Middle High Germanbī
  9. Germanbei
  10. Germanbei-
  11. GermanGuss
  12. GermanBeiguss
  13. Polishbigos
  14. English todaybigos

Borrowed from Polish bigos.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.