bestwić

From bestia +‎ -ić under influence of pastwić.^[1][2] Bańkowski suggests a derivation of *biestwo + -ić, from bies + -stwo and a dialectal hardening of b.^[3] First attested in 1577.^[4]

• Rhymes: -ɛstfit͡ɕ
• Syllabification: bes‧twić

bestwić impf

1. (transitive, obsolete) to incite, to work up (to bring to a state of being angry)
2. (transitive, obsolete) to work up, to arouse (to evoke lust)
3. (transitive, Middle Polish) to scare, to scare away; to startle
4. (transitive, Middle Polish, figuratively) to work up (to make proud or arrogant)
5. (reflexive with się, obsolete or dialectal, Far Masovian) to torment, to mistreat
6. (reflexive with się, obsolete) to become angry; to become wild, to become feral; to become worked up
7. (reflexive with się, obsolete) to become worked up, to become aroused
   1. (reflexive with się, obsolete, of animals) to feel a sex drive
8. (reflexive with się, Middle Polish) to become depraved, to become demoralized

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• bestwić in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Danuta Lankiewicz (22.02.2016) “BESTWIĆ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
• Danuta Lankiewicz (16.09.2024) “BESTWIĆ%20%20SIĘ”, 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) “bestwić”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “bestwić”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “bestwić”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 118
• bestwić się in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego
• Wojciech Grzegorzewicz (1894) “bestwić”, in Sprawozdania Komisji Językowej Akademii Umiejętności (in Polish), volume 5, Krakow: Akademia Umiejętności, page 103