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Old Polish
Etymology
From gwiazda + -o- + mówca. First attested in 1471. Displaced by Polish astrolog. Compare Old English tungolwitga or Ancient Greek ἀστρολόγος (astrológos).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /ɡvjaːzdɔmɔːft͡sa/
- IPA(key): (15th CE) /ɡvjɒzdɔmoft͡sa/
Noun
gwiazdomówca m animacy unattested
- astrologer
- Synonyms: gwiazdarz, gwiazdownik
1901 [1471], Materiały i Prace Komisji Językowej Akademii Umiejętności w Krakowie, volume V, page 6:Gwyazdomowcza astrologus (taceo de grammaticis, rhetoribus, ... astronomis, astrologis, medicis, quorum scientia mortalibus satis vel utilissima est Prol)- [Gwiazdomowca astrologus (taceo de grammaticis, rhetoribus, ... astronomis, astrologis, medicis, quorum scientia mortalibus satis vel utilissima est Prol)]
- Gwiazdomowca—astrologer (not to mention grammarians, rhetoricians, astronomers, astrologers, doctors, whose knowledge is of utmost utility to mortals Prol)
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), “gwiazdomówca”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN