drzeń

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Old Polish

Alternative forms

zdrzeń

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *strьžьnь (“core”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /drzɛ(ː)ɲ/
IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /drzɛɲ/, /drzeɲ/

Noun

drzeń m animacy unattested

(attested in Greater Poland) medulla (internal tissue of a plant)
- 1908 [c. 1500], Bolesław Erzepki, editor, Przyczynki do średniowiecznego słownictwa polskiego. I. Glosy polskie wpisane do łacińsko-niemieckiego słownika drukowanego w roku 1490‎, Lubiń, page 15:
  Centrum drszen vel posrzodek
  [Centrum drzeń vel pośrzodek]
(attested in Silesia) core (essential part)
- 1956 [XV med.], Jerzy Woronczak, editor, Teksty polskie w rękopisie nr 43 Biblioteki Kapitulnej we Wrocławiu z połowy XV wieku‎, Silesia, page 105v:
  Quia talis cognicio parentum non potest fieri absque libidine, kochane, et fomite, sdrzen, peccati, ideo pueri eorum non possunt concipi absque peccato
  [Quia talis cognicio parentum non potest fieri absque libidine, kochanie, et fomite, zdrzeń, peccati, ideo pueri eorum non possunt concipi absque peccato]

Descendants

Polish: rdzeń, drdzeń (Central Greater Poland), drzeń (Central Greater Poland, Southern Greater Poland)
Silesian: drzyń

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), “(rdzeń) dr-zeń, zdr-zeń”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

Polish

Pronunciation

(Greater Poland):
- (Central Greater Poland) IPA^(key): /ˈdʐɛɲ/
- (Southern Greater Poland) IPA^(key): /ˈdʐɛɲ/
(New mixed dialects) IPA^(key): /ˈdʐɛɲ/

Noun

drzeń m inan

(Central Greater Poland, Southern Greater Poland, Malbork) Alternative form of rdzeń

Further reading

Oskar Kolberg (1877) “drzeń”, in “Rzecz o mowie ludu wielkopolskiego”, in Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowéj (in Polish), volume 1, III (Materyjały etnologiczne), page 18
Oskar Kolberg (1877) “drzeń”, in “Rzecz o mowie ludu wielkopolskiego”, in Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowéj (in Polish), volume 1, III (Materyjały etnologiczne), page 29
Kazimierz Nitsch (1907) “drzeń”, in “Dyalekty polskie Prus zachodnich”, in Materyały i Prace Komisyi Językowej Akademii Umiejętności w Krakowie (in Polish), volume 3, Krakow: Akademia Umiejętności, page 387

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