kuś

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See also: Appendix:Variations of "kus"

Old Polish

Etymology

Probably from kur with unattested meaning “penis” (compare Kashubian kùrc, Serbo-Croatian ку̏рац / kȕrac) + -ś.[1] Orignally “(little) penis” (attested since Middle Polish) > “young boy” (compare dialectal Polish kusiu (“little boy”)). Compare Belarusian ку́сік (kúsik, “penis”, childish).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /ku(ː)ɕ/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /kuɕ/

Noun

kuś m animacy unattested

  1. (attested in Greater Poland) apprentice baker
    • 1908 [c. 1500], Bolesław Erzepki, editor, Przyczynki do średniowiecznego słownictwa polskiego. I. Glosy polskie wpisane do łacińsko-niemieckiego słownika drukowanego w roku 1490‎, Lubiń, page 36:
      Ciniflos kvs, kvchczyk, quasi in cinerem flans
      [Ciniflos kuś, kuchcik, quasi in cinerem flans]

References

  1. ^ Sławski, Franciszek (1966-1969) “kuś”, in Jan Safarewicz, Andrzej Siudut, editors, Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volumes III: Kotar—Kysz, Kraków: Towarzystwo Miłośników Języka Polskiego, page 437

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

Polish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Polish kuś. By surface analysis, kur +‎ -ś.

Noun

kuś m animal

  1. (archaic) cock, dick (penis)
Declension
Declension of kuś
singular plural
nominative kuś kusie
genitive kusia kusi
dative kusiowi kusiom
accusative kusia kusie
instrumental kusiem kusiami
locative kusiu kusiach
vocative kusiu kusie
Derived terms
nouns

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

kuś

  1. second-person singular imperative of kusić

Further reading

  • kuś in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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