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Polish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Polish gościniec. By surface analysis, gościć + -ina + -iec. Sense 3 is a semantic loan from Czech hostinec.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -iɲɛt͡s
- Syllabification: goś‧ci‧niec
Noun
gościniec m inan
- (dated or literary or dialectal, Central Greater Poland) wide rural road
- (dated or literary or regional, Białystok) gift brought back from one's travels; souvenir
- Synonyms: suwenir, upominek
- (archaic or dialectal, Kuyavia, Central Greater Poland, Lasovia) inn, tavern
- Synonyms: karczma, zajazd
Declension
Further reading
- gościniec in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- gościniec in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Oskar Kolberg (1867) “gościniec”, in Dzieła wszystkie: Kujawy (in Polish), page 270
- Oskar Kolberg (1877) “gościniec”, in “Rzecz o mowie ludu wielkopolskiego”, in Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowéj (in Polish), volume 1, III (Materyjały etnologiczne), page 18
- Oskar Kolberg (1865) “gościniec”, in Lud. Jego zwyczaje, sposób życia, mowa, podania, przysłowia, obrzędy, gusła, zabawy, pieśni, muzyka i tańce. Serya II. Sandomierskie (in Polish), page 261