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Old Polish
Etymology
Univerbation of dobrze + mówić. Compare Old Czech dobrořěčiti, Latin benedīcō. First attested in the end of the fourteenth century.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /dɔbr̝ɛmɔːvit͡ɕ/
- IPA(key): (15th CE) /dɔbr̝ɛmovit͡ɕ/
Verb
dobrzemówić impf
- (attested in Lesser Poland) to adore, to praise, to condemn, to speak well of
1939 [end of the 14th century], Ryszard Ganszyniec, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Kubica, Ludwik Bernacki, editors, Psałterz florjański łacińsko-polsko-niemiecki [Sankt Florian Psalter], Krakow: Zakład Narodowy imienia Ossolińskich, z zasiłkiem Sejmu Śląskiego [The Ossoliński National Institute: with the benefit of the Silesian Parliament], pages 67, 28:W czerekwach dobrzemowcze bogu (in ecclesiis benedicite deo)- [W cerekwiach dobrzemowcie Bogu (in ecclesiis benedicite Deo)]
- (attested in Southern Borderlands) to wish well
1880-1894 [Fifteenth centeury], Sprawozdania Komisji Językowej Akademii Umiejętności, volume I, Lviv, page 58:Dobrzemowcze thym a modlcz[e] sze za thy, czo wasz przesladvya, dobrzemowcze (benedicite persequentibus vos, benedicite et nolite maledicere Rom 12, 14)- [Dobrzemowcie tym a modlci[e] sie za ty, co was prześladują, dobrzemowcie (benedicite persequentibus vos, benedicite et nolite maledicere Rom 12, 14)]
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), “dobrze mówić”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN