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Polish
Etymology
From żreć + -ny. First attested in 1654–1676.[1]
Pronunciation
Adjective
żerny (not comparable, no derived adverb)
- (medicine) having the ability to absorb and dissolve absorbed microorganisms (Is there an English equivalent to this definition?)
- (obsolete or dialectal, Central Greater Poland, chiefly of animals) hungry; voracious (eating much; needing much food)
- (obsolete) bountiful (having much to eat)
Declension
Declension of żerny (hard)
Derived terms
References
- ^ Włodzimierz Gruszczyński (18.11.2018) “ŻERNY”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
Further reading
- żerny in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “żerny”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “żerny”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1927), “żerny”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 8, Warsaw, page 708
- Oskar Kolberg (1877) “żerny”, in “Rzecz o mowie ludu wielkopolskiego”, in Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowéj (in Polish), volume 1, III (Materyjały etnologiczne), page 25