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Polish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Polish piekielny/pkielni/pkielny. By surface analysis, piekło + -ny.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɛlnɘ
- Syllabification: pie‧kiel‧ny
Adjective
piekielny (not comparable, derived adverb piekielnie)
- (relational) hellish, infernal (of or relating to hell)
- Synonyms: (Middle Polish) adowy, (literary) infernalny, (Middle Polish) piekielski, piekłowy
- (colloquial) devil's own, intense
- Synonyms: diabelski, intensywny
- (colloquial) damn, cursed, unearthly
- Synonyms: cholerny, przeklęty, niesamowity
Declension
Declension of piekielny (hard)
Noun
piekielny m pers (female equivalent piekielna)
- (Middle Polish, nominalized) hell dweller
- Synonyms: piekielnik, piekłoszczyk
Derived terms
Further reading
- piekielny in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- piekielny in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “piekielny”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]