pastwa

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Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pastъva. By surface analysis, paść +‎ -twa.

Pronunciation

 
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  • Rhymes: -astfa
  • Syllabification: pa‧stwa

Noun

pastwa f

  1. (obsolete) prey, food of a predator
    Synonym: żer
  2. (obsolete) booty, loot, spoils
  3. (Northern Greater Poland, Eastern Greater Poland, Kuyavia) Synonym of pasza (“fodder”)

Declension

Declension of pastwa
singular plural
nominative pastwa pastwy
genitive pastwy pastw
dative pastwie pastwom
accusative pastwę pastwy
instrumental pastwą pastwami
locative pastwie pastwach
vocative pastwo pastwy

Derived terms

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Further reading

  • pastwa in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego/pastwa on the Polish Wikisource.Wikisource pl
  • Oskar Kolberg (1867) “pastwa”, in Dzieła wszystkie: Kujawy (in Polish), page 274
  • Oskar Kolberg (1877) “pastwa”, in “Rzecz o mowie ludu wielkopolskiego”, in Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowéj (in Polish), volume 1, III (Materyjały etnologiczne), page 35
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