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Old Polish
Etymology
From baba + -i- + mór. First attested in 1437.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /babimɔːr/
- IPA(key): (15th CE) /babimor/
Noun
babimór m animacy unattested
- stag's-horn clubmoss (Lycopodium clavatum)
1900 [1437], Józef Rostafiński, editor, Symbola ad historiam naturalem medii aevi = Średniowieczna historya naturalna w Polsce. Ps 2, number 2805:Babimor spica gallica, spica celtica, cauda- [Babimor spica gallica, spica celtica, cauda]
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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), “babimór, babimórz”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN
Polish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Polish babimór. By surface analysis, baba (“grandma”) + -i- + mór (“plague”).
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -imur
- Syllabification: ba‧bi‧mór
Noun
babimór m inan
- stag's-horn clubmoss (Lycopodium clavatum)
1936, Roczniki nauk rolniczych:Babimór często okupuje teren wspólnie z widłakiem jałowcowatym (Lycopodium annotinum L.).- Stag's-horn clubmoss often occupies the same terrain as Lycopodium annotinum.
Declension
Further reading
- babimór in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “babimór”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- “BABIMÓR”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 18.05.2009
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “babimór”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “babimór”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “babimór”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 78
- babimór in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego