posiew
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Old Polish
Etymology
Deverbal from posiewać. First attested in 1491.
Pronunciation
Noun
posiew m animacy unattested
- sown or harvested grain
- 1868 [1491], Akta grodzkie i ziemskie z czasów Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej : z archiwum tak zwanego bernardyńskiego we Lwowie w skutek fundacyi śp. Alexandra hr. Stadnickiego, volume XIX, page 391:
- Quos homines invadiando recepisti de eisdem violenter labores et sementa al. possev tritici et siliginis ad ipsum Nicolaum spectancia
- [Quos homines invadiando recepisti de eisdem violenter labores et sementa al. posiew tritici et siliginis ad ipsum Nicolaum spectancia]
Derived terms
nouns
Related terms
verbs
- posiewać impf
Descendants
- Polish: posiew
References
- Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “posiew”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
- B. Sieradzka-Baziur, editor (2011–2015), “posiew”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN
Polish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Polish posiew. By surface analysis, deverbal from posiewać.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpɔ.ɕɛf/
- (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈpɔ.ɕef/
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -ɔɕɛf
- Syllabification: po‧siew
Noun
posiew m inan
- (countable, medicine) culture test (medical exam or test wherein a substance from a person's body or environment is placed in a special solution that allows the development of microorganisms)
- (uncountable, agriculture) sowing (act of sowing seeds)
- (countable, agriculture) all plants planted this way
- Synonym: zasiew
- (countable, agriculture) all plants planted this way
- (uncountable, literary, by extension) sowing (act of repeated spreading of an idea or repeating an action, the effects of which will be apparent after some time)
- (uncountable, literary) fruit (results of such spreading)
Declension
Declension of posiew
Further reading
- posiew in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- posiew in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “posiew”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “posiew”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “posiew”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1908), “posiew”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw, page 740