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Polish
Etymology
From żywić + -izna. Compare Masovian Polish żywina.
Pronunciation
Noun
żywizna f
- (Malbork) livestock (animals fed in a pigsty and stable)
- (Chełmno) farm poultry (birds kept as livestock)
Further reading
- Dr Nadmorski (Józef Łęgowski) (1889) “żywizna”, in “Spis wyrazów właściwych gwarze malborskiej i kociewskiej”, in Wisła. Miesięcznik Geograficzno-Etnograficzny (in Polish), volume 3 z.4, page 748
- Gustaw Pobłocki (1887) “żywizna”, in Słownik kaszubski z dodatkiem idyotyzmów chełmińskich i kociewskich (in Polish), 2 edition, Chełmno, page 145