przerwa

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Kashubian

Etymology

Deverbal from przerwac. Compare Polish przerwa.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpʂɛ.rva/
  • Rhymes: -ɛrva
  • Syllabification: prze‧rwa

Noun

przerwa f

  1. break, interruption, pause (temporary stop of an action)
    Synonym: paùza
  2. break; recess; intermission (time designated for rest after an activity, e.g. between lessons, acts of a play, at work)
    Synonyms: òdpòczink, paùza

Further reading

  • Stefan Ramułt (1893) “přerva”, in Słownik języka pomorskiego czyli kaszubskiego (in Kashubian), page 168
  • Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “przerwa”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi
  • przerwa”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

Old Polish

Etymology

Deverbal from przerwać. First attested in 1447.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /pr̝ɛrva/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /pr̝ɛrva/

Noun

przerwa f

  1. trench, ditch
    • 1887 [1447], Archiwum książąt Lubartowiczów Sanguszków w Sławucie. T. 1, 1366-1506, volume II, Lviv, page 177:
      A granitie, quae stat circa fluvium..., transierunt per fluvium et vadunt... usque ad viam, quae vadit superius... fossae al. nad przerwą
      [A granitie, quae stat circa fluvium..., transierunt per fluvium et vadunt... usque ad viam, quae vadit superius... fossae al. nad przerwą]
verbs

Descendants

  • Polish: przerwa
  • Silesian: przerwa

References

  • Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “rwać”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
  • Mańczak, Witold (2017) “rwać”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN
  • Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “przerwa”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  • 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), “przerwa”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish przerwa. By surface analysis, deverbal from przerwać.

Pronunciation

 
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  • Rhymes: -ɛrva
  • Syllabification: prze‧rwa
  • Homophone: Przerwa

Noun

przerwa f

  1. break, interruption, pause (temporary stop of an action)
    Synonym: pauza
  2. (education) break; recess; intermission (time designated for rest after an activity, e.g. between lessons, acts of a play, at work)
    Synonym: pauza
  3. gap (place not filled by something)
    Synonym: luka
  4. (obsolete) creeping Jenny (Lysimachia nummularia)
    Synonym: tojeść rozesłana
  5. (obsolete, anatomy) interstitium (interstitial space within a tissue or organ)
  6. (obsolete, geography) current that a river has carved out through a tussock or a sandy island
  7. (obsolete, geology) fault
    Synonym: uskok
  8. (obsolete, pathology) scotoma
    Synonym: mroczek
  9. (obsolete, military) trench (simple entrenchment or excavation as a fortification made in order to slowly defend remaining ground)
  10. (Middle Polish) hole in a pond drain
  11. (Middle Polish) breach in a dyke or pond
  12. (Middle Polish) basin separated in a sea bay where fish were caught and preserved with salt
  13. (Middle Polish) abyss
    Synonyms: otchłań, przepaść

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Further reading

Silesian

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish przerwa. By surface analysis, deverbal from przerwać.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpʂɛ.rva/
  • Rhymes: -ɛrva
  • Syllabification: prze‧rwa

Noun

przerwa f

  1. break, interruption, pause (temporary stop of an action)
    Synonym: pauza

Further reading

  • Henryk Jaroszewicz (2022) “przerwa”, in Zasady pisowni języka śląskiego (in Polish), Siedlce: Wydawnictwo Naukowe IKRBL, page 122