obrzym

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Old Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ob(ъ)rinъ.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

obrzym m pers

  1. (attested in Pomerania, Greater Poland) giant (person, or rarely an animal, of very large proportions)
    Synonym: stolin
    • 1930 [c. 1455], “Deut”, in Ludwik Bernacki, editor, Biblia królowej Zofii (Biblia szaroszpatacka)‎, 2, 11:
      Iako obrzymowye (gigantes) domnymani sø bili, aby byli rowni synom Enachovim
      [Jako obrzymowie (gigantes) domnimani są byli, aby byli rowni synom Enachowym]
    • 1874-1891 [15th century], Rozprawy i Sprawozdania z Posiedzeń Wydziału Filologicznego Akademii Umiejętności‎, , , volume XXIV, Grochów, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Kcynia, page 62:
      Adducit in exemplum elephantem, obrzim, qui vnicum puerum tamen habet et hoc in centum annis, quem cum magna astucia parturit
      [Adducit in exemplum elephantem, obrzym, qui vnicum puerum tamen habet et hoc in centum annis, quem cum magna astucia parturit]

Descendants

  • Polish: olbrzym

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

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