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Old Polish
Etymology
From słza + -awy.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /sɫzavɨː/
- IPA(key): (15th CE) /sɫzavɨ/
Adjective
słzawy
- having rheumy eyes
- Synonym: zaparzony
1930 [c. 1455], chapter 21, in Ludwik Bernacki, editor, Biblia królowej Zofii (Biblia szaroszpatacka), section 20:Billibi (sc. człowiek)... garbowati albo slzawi, albo byelmo mayøczi na oczv..., nye przistøpy offyerowacz panv (si lippus, sc. fuerit, ... non accedet offerre hostias domino)- [Byłliby (sc. człowiek)... garbowaty albo słzawy, albo bielmo mający na oczu..., nie przystąpi ofierować (obiaty) Panu (si lippus, sc. fuerit, ... non accedet offerre hostias Domino)]
Descendants
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), “(łzawy) słzawy”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN