Etymology

pisanka

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Polish pisanka ← Old Polish pisać ← Proto-Slavic *pisati
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*peyḱ-
  2. Proto-Balto-Slavic*peiśtei
  3. Proto-Slavic*pisati
  4. Old Polishpisać
  5. Polishpisać
  6. Polishpisanka
  7. English todaypisanka

Borrowed from Polish pisanka.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.