rydzy

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Old Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ryďь.

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

rydzy

  1. (attested in Greater Poland, Masovia) copper, fulvous, red-yellow
    Synonym: rudy
    • 1885-2024 [c. 1428], Jan Baudouina de Courtenay, Jan Karłowicz, Antoni Adam Kryńskiego, Malinowski Lucjan, editors, Prace Filologiczne, volume I, Międzyrzecz, Warsaw, page 488:
      Rydzy faluius
      [Rydzy faluius]
  2. (of the color of a horse's fur) chestnut
    • 1868 [1465], Akta grodzkie i ziemskie z czasów Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej : z archiwum tak zwanego bernardyńskiego we Lwowie w skutek fundacyi śp. Alexandra hr. Stadnickiego, volume XIII, page 468:
      Iohannes... intercessit nobilem Nicolaum... pro equo coloris rydzy
      [Iohannes... intercessit nobilem Nicolaum... pro equo coloris rydzy]

Derived terms

noun

Descendants

  • Polish: (dialectal or obsolete) rydzy

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