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Old Polish
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *žьrьcь.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /ʒʲɨr̝ɛt͡s/
- IPA(key): (15th CE) /ʒʲɨr̝ɛt͡s/
Noun
żyrzec m animacy unattested
- wedding starosta, wedding host
1915 [XV in.], Jan Łoś, editor, Przegląd językowych zabytków staropolskich do r. 1543, page 520:Szyrecz architriclinus- [Żyrzec architriclinus]
Descendants
- Polish: żerca (“Slavic pagan priest”)
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), “(żerzec) żyrzec”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN