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Old Polish
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lokàti.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /ɫɔkat͡ɕ/
- IPA(key): (15th CE) /ɫɔkat͡ɕ/
Verb
łokać impf
- to lap, to guzzle
1901 [1471], Materiały i Prace Komisji Językowej Akademii Umiejętności w Krakowie, volume V, page 33:Lokacz lambere (dixit dominus ad Gedeon: Qui lingua lambuerint aquas, sicut solent canes lambere, separabis eos seorsum, qui autem curvatis genibus biberint in altera parte erunt Jud 7, 5)- [Łokać lambere (dixit dominus ad Gedeon: Qui lingua lambuerint aquas, sicut solent canes lambere, separabis eos seorsum, qui autem curvatis genibus biberint in altera parte erunt Jud 7, 5)]
References
- B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “łokać”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN