köken: Etymology tree Old Polish kłaść Polish kłaść Proto-Indo-European *-keh₂der. Proto-Balto-Slavic *-kāˀ Proto-Slavic *-ъka Old Polish -ka Polish -ka Polish kładka From kłaść + -ka. First attested in 1618.
köken: Inherited from Latin pontem m. Compare Aromanian punti. Based on the Aromanian and Megleno-Romanian cognates referring to all bridges in general, it is probable that older Romanian also did. This change may have come about due to centuries of Slavic administration preferring the Slavic derived term pod (“bridge”), during which time punte was relegated to reference of bridges of inferior…