köken: Inherited from Middle French polaire, from Medieval Latin polāris (“relating to poles”), from Latin polus (“pole or end of an axis”), from Ancient Greek πόλος (pólos, “sky, pivot or axis of a sphere”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷolo- (“turn around”), from *kʷel- (“to move around, to roll or wheel”).
Etymology tree Polish biegun Proto-Indo-European *-usder. Proto-Indo-European *-osder. Proto-Slavic *-ovъ Old Polish -owy Polish -owy Polish biegunowy From biegun + -owy. First attested in 1621.