bdelium
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Polish
Alternative forms
- bdelijum, bdelijon, bedola (Middle Polish)
- bdelyum (pre-reform orthography (1816))
- bdeljum (pre-reform orthography (1936))
Etymology
Inherited from Old Polish bdelijum.
Pronunciation
Noun
bdelium n (indeclinable)
- (obsolete) bdellium (aromatic gum-like balsam extracted from one of several species of tree in the genus Commiphora)
Further reading
- Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “bdelijum, bdelijon, bedola”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- Dorota Adamiec (19.10.2018) “BDELIUM”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “bdelium”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “bdeljum”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861