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Old Polish
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *počivati.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /pɔt͡ʃʲɨvat͡ɕ/
- IPA(key): (15th CE) /pɔt͡ʃʲɨvat͡ɕ/
Verb
poczywać impf
- (attested in Silesia) to rest, to take a rest
- Synonym: próźnić
1949 [c. 1270], Roman Grodecki, transl., Księga Henrykowska, Silesia, page 24r:Sine, ut ego etiam molam, hoc est in Polonico: Day, *ut ia pobrusa, a ti poziwai- [Sine, ut ego etiam molam, hoc est in Polonico: Daj, ać ja pobruszę, a ty poczywaj]
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), “poczywać”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN