gdula

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Old Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *kъduňa.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /ɡdulʲa/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /ɡdulʲa/

Noun

gdula f

  1. quince (Cydonia oblonga)
    • 1900 [1437], Józef Rostafiński, editor, Symbola ad historiam naturalem medii aevi = Średniowieczna historya naturalna w Polsce. Ps 2‎, number 2548:
      Gdula, pigua citonia
      [Gdula, pigwa citonia]
    • 1900 [1464], Józef Rostafiński, editor, Symbola ad historiam naturalem medii aevi = Średniowieczna historya naturalna w Polsce. Ps 2‎, number 4786:
      Gdule coctana
      [Gdule coctana]
  2. mandrake (Mandragora officinarum)
    • 1901 [15th century], Materiały i Prace Komisji Językowej Akademii Umiejętności w Krakowie, volume V, page 74:
      Mandragore genus pomi; sunt autem poma eius odorifera pulcra et insipida; gdule mandragore (mandragorae dederunt odorem Cant 7, 13)
      [Mandragore genus pomi; sunt autem poma eius odorifera pulcra et insipida; gdule mandragore (mandragorae dederunt odorem Cant 7, 13)]
  3. European mistletoe (Viscum album)
    • 1885-2024 [End of the 15th century], Jan Baudouina de Courtenay, Jan Karłowicz, Antoni Adam Kryńskiego, Malinowski Lucjan, editors, Prace Filologiczne‎, volume V, page 7:
      Gdule vel pigle mespilia
      [Gdule vel pigle mespilia]

Further reading

  • 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), “gdula”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN
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