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Polish
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Verb
hepać impf
- (reflexive with się, impersonal, Kielce) Synonym of czkać
- Hepie mu się. ― He has the hiccups.
Further reading
- Władysław Siarkowski (1891) “hepie mu sie”, in “Słowniczek gwary ludowej z okolic Pińczowa”, in Sprawozdania Komisyi Językowej Akademii Umiejętności (in Polish), volume 4, page 336
- Zygmunt Wasilewski (1895) “hepać”, in “Słowniczek wyrazów ludowych we wsi Jaksicach”, in Prace Filologiczne (in Polish), volume 5, Warsaw: skł. gł. w Księgarni E. Wende i Ska, page 91