morze

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See also: mòrze, morzę, mòrzé, and morże

Old Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *moře. First attested in the 14th century.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /mɔr̝ɛ/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /mɔr̝ɛ/

Noun

morze n (related adjective morski)

  1. sea; lake (large body of water)
    • c. 1301-1350, Kazania świętokrzyskie, page ar 17:
      Postaui prauø nogø na mory
      [Postawi prawą nogę na morzy]
    • 1930 [Fifteenth century], “Gen”, in Ludwik Bernacki, editor, Biblia królowej Zofii (Biblia szaroszpatacka), 14, 3:
      Bily szø sesly do padola lesznego, ges to gest morze solne (mare salis)
      [Byli się seszli do padoła leśnego, jeż to jest Morze Solne (mare salis)]

Descendants

  • Masurian: morże
  • Polish: morze
  • Silesian: morze

References

Polish

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Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Polish morze.

Noun

morze n (related adjective morski)

  1. sea (large body of water)
  2. (figuratively) sea (large amount of something)
Declension
Derived terms
verbs

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), morze is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 31 times in scientific texts, 12 times in news, 4 times in essays, 14 times in fiction, and 22 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 83 times, making it the 768th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

morze f

  1. dative/locative singular of mora

Noun

morze m

  1. locative/vocative singular of mór

References

  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “morze”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎ (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 255

Further reading

  • morze in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • morze in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “morze”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  • MORZE”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 07.07.2022
  • Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “morze”, in Słownik języka polskiego
  • Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “morze”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
  • J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1902), “morze”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 2, Warsaw, page 1045

Silesian

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish morze.

Pronunciation

Noun

morze n (related adjective morski)

  1. sea (large body of water)
  2. (figuratively) sea (large amount of something)
    Synonyms: siyła, moc, mocka

Declension

Further reading