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Old Polish
Etymology
From mówić + -stwo. First attested in the fifteenth century.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /mɔfstfɔ/
- IPA(key): (15th CE) /mɔfstfɔ/
Noun
mowstwo n
- (law) appearing before a court on behalf of a litigant
1875 [c. 1455-1460], Zygmunt Celichowski, editor, Słowniczek łacińsko- polski wyrazów prawa magdeburskiego z wieku XV. Przedruk homograficzny z kodeksu kórnickiego, page 9:Proloquucie, id est cause fouende, vlg. mowstwo uel rzecznyczstwo- [Proloquucie, id est cause fouende, vlg. mowstwo uel rzecznicstwo]
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), “mowstwo”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN