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Polish
Etymology
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Particularly: “Krasnowolski draws a connection to ciba with an original meaning of "to be haughty" (napuszać się); seems dubious”
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Compare Masovian Polish cipać.
Pronunciation
Verb
cibić impf (perfective cibnąć)
- (reflexive with się, Chełmno-Dobrzyń) to dare (to attack those older and stronger)
Further reading
- Antoni Krasnowolski (1879) “cibić się, ciwić się”, in Album uczącéj się młodzieży polskiéj poświęcone Józefowi Ignacemu Kraszewskiemu z powodu jubileuszu jego pięćdziesięcioletniéj działalności literackiéj (in Polish), Lviv: Czytelni Akademickiéj Lwowskiéj; "Gaz. Narod." J. Dobrzańskiego i K. Gromana, Słowniczek prowincjalizmów zebranych w ziemi chełmińskiej i świeckiej, page 300