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Polish
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pьrsь.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɛrɕ
- Syllabification: pierś
Noun
pierś f
- breast, chest
- woman's breast
- (Near Masovian, in the plural) thick part of a beam resting on a wall
Declension
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Further reading
- pierś in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- pierś in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Władysław Matlakowski (1891) “pierś”, in “Zbiór wyrazów ludowych dawnej ziemi czerskiej”, in Sprawozdania Komisyi Językowej Akademii Umiejętności, volume 4, Krakow: Drukarnia Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, page 367