ściegna

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See also: ścięgna

Old Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *stьgna.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

ściegna f

  1. (attested in Greater Poland) path, trail, especially one for driving cattle to pasture
    • 1885-2024 [c. 1450], Jan Baudouina de Courtenay, Jan Karłowicz, Antoni Adam Kryńskiego, Malinowski Lucjan, editors, Prace Filologiczne‎, volume IV, page 578:
      In vias et sepes na szczegny, na rostany, na przecznycze (exi in vias et saepes Luc 14, 23)
      [In vias et sepes na ściegny, na rozstani, na przecznice (exi in vias et saepes Luc 14, 23)]
    • 1877-1999 [1309], Franciszek Piekosiński, Antoni Gąsiorowski, Henryk Kowalewicz, Ryszard Walczak, Tomasz Jasiński, Izabela Skierska, editors, Kodeks dyplomatyczny Wielkopolski. Codex diplomaticus Maioris Poloniae [Diplomatic Code of Greater Poland], volume II, Greater Poland, page 267:
      Circa viam pastoralem, que vlg. sczegna nuncupatur
      [Circa viam pastoralem, que vlg. ściegna nuncupatur]
  2. grassland, pasturage, pasture
    • 1856-1870 [1404], Antoni Zygmunt Helcel, editor, Starodawne Prawa Polskiego Pomniki‎, volume II, number 1057:
      Si quid superfluitatis habuerit in tempe al. sczegny, debet addi
      [Si quid superfluitatis habuerit in tempe al. ściegny, debet addi]

Further reading

  • 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), “ściegna”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN
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