łóżko

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See also: łózko, łóżkò, and łōżko

Old Polish

Etymology

From łoże +‎ -ko. First attested in the 14th century.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /ɫɔːʃʲkɔ/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /ɫoʃʲkɔ/

Noun

łóżko n

  1. Diminutive of łoże (bed) (piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, on which to rest or sleep)
    • c. 1301-1350, Kazania świętokrzyskie, page br 34:
      Offerebant ei, inquit, paraliticum iacentem in lecto... Cso nam pres togo nemochnego, na lozcu lezøcego znamona?
      [Offerebant ei, inquit, paraliticum iacentem in lecto... Cso nam przez togo niemocnego, na łożku leżącego znamiona?]

Descendants

  • Masurian: łózko
  • Polish: łóżko
  • Silesian: łōżko

References

Polish

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łóżko

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish łóżko. By surface analysis, łoże +‎ -ko. Compare Czech lůžko and Kashubian łóżkò.

Pronunciation

Noun

łóżko n (diminutive łóżeczko, related adjective łóżkowy)

  1. bed (piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, on which to rest or sleep)
    Synonym: wyro
    łóżko polowecamp bed/cot
  2. bed (place for a customer or client to lay down)
    łóżko opalającesun tanning bed
  3. (administrative) bed (place for one person in a hospital or hotel)
  4. (colloquial, figurative) bed (sexual activity)
    Synonyms: pożycie, seks, stosunek
  5. (anatomy, Middle Polish) placenta
    Synonym: łożysko

Declension

Derived terms

interjections
    nouns
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    Related terms

    adjective
    noun

    Trivia

    According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), łóżko is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 3 times in scientific texts, 6 times in news, 1 time in essays, 35 times in fiction, and 18 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 63 times, making it the 1039th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

    References

    1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “łóżko”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎ (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 228

    Further reading

    • łóżko in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
    • łóżko in Polish dictionaries at PWN
    • Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “łóżko”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
    • ŁÓŻKO”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 06.01.2009
    • Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “łóżko”, in Słownik języka polskiego
    • Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “łóżko”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
    • J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1902), “łóżko”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 2, Warsaw, page 821