karczma
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Old Polish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *kъrčьma.
Pronunciation
Noun
karczma f
- (attested in Greater Poland) inn, tavern
- 1888 [1391], Romuald Hube, editor, Zbiór rot przysiąg sądowych poznańskich, kościańskich, kaliskich, sieradzkich, piotrkowskich i dobrzyszyckich z końca wieku XIV i pierwszych lat wieku XV, Greater Poland, page 64:
- Iaco Woyass cupil v podsanthka cu soltisstw dwa srzeba i kwartø, i dwa ogrodi, i kaczmø
- [Jako Wojasz kupił u podsędka ku sołtystwu dwa źrzebia i kwartę, i dwa ogrody, i kaczmę]
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), “karczma”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN
Polish
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *kъrčьma; cognate with Lower Sorbian kjarcma, Upper Sorbian korčma, Czech krčma, Serbo-Croatian kȑčma.
Pronunciation
Noun
karczma f
Declension
Declension of karczma
Derived terms
adjective
nouns