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English

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Etymology

Borrowed from Polish sejm.

Noun

sejm (plural sejms)

  1. A political assembly or committee in Poland and the surrounding areas.

Kashubian

Etymology

Borrowed from Polish sejm.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsɛjm/
  • Rhymes: -ɛjm
  • Syllabification: sejm

Noun

sejm m inan (related adjective sejmòwi)

  1. (government) parliament (legislative branch of government, a deliberative assembly or set of assemblies whose elected or appointed members meet to debate the major political issues of the day, make, amend, and repeal laws, authorize the executive branch of government to spend money, and in some cases exercise judicial powers)
    1. parliament (room dedicated to such a branch)

Declension

Further reading

  • Stefan Ramułt (1893) “sejm”, in Słownik języka pomorskiego czyli kaszubskiego (in Kashubian), page 192
  • Jan Trepczyk (1994) “sejm”, in Słownik polsko-kaszubski (in Kashubian), volumes 1–2
  • Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “sejm”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi
  • sejm”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

Old Polish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sъnьmъ. By surface analysis, deverbal from zjąć. First attested in the 15th century.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

sejm m inan

  1. (politics) sejm (a political assembly or committee in Poland and the surrounding areas)
    • 1868 [1494], Akta grodzkie i ziemskie z czasów Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej : z archiwum tak zwanego bernardyńskiego we Lwowie w skutek fundacyi śp. Alexandra hr. Stadnickiego, volume XVII, page 306:
      Ad convencionem terrestrem proximam al. na schyem
      [Ad convencionem terrestrem proximam al. na sjem]
  2. (attested in Greater Poland) council, assembly
    • 1877-1881 [1437], Władysław Wisłocki, editor, Katalog rękopisów Biblioteki Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, number 228, page 86:
      Sgem convencio
      [Sjem convencio]
    • c. 1500, Wokabularz lubiński, Lubiń: inkunabuł Archiwum Archidiecezjalnego w Gnieźnie, sygn. Inc. 78d., page 34r:
      Convencio szeym
      [Convencio sejm]

Derived terms

nouns

Descendants

  • Polish: sejm
    • English: sejm
    • Lithuanian: seĩmas
    • Romanian: seim
    • Russian: сейм (sejm)
    • Ukrainian: сейм (sejm)
  • Silesian: syjm

References

  • Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “sejm”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
  • Mańczak, Witold (2017) “sejm”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN
  • Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “sejm”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  • Sławski, Franciszek (1958-1965) “sejm”, in Jan Safarewicz, Andrzej Siudut, editors, Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), Kraków: Towarzystwo Miłośników Języka Polskiego
  • 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), “sejm”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN
  • Ewa Deptuchowa, Mariusz Frodyma, Katarzyna Jasińska, Magdalena Klapper, Dorota Kołodziej, Mariusz Leńczuk, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, editors (2023), “sejm”, in Rozariusze z polskimi glosami. Internetowa baza danych [Dictionaries of Polish glosses, an Internet database] (in Polish), Kraków: Pracownia Języka Staropolskiego Instytut Języka Polskiego Polskiej Akademii Nauk

Polish

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sejm

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish sejm.

Pronunciation

 
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛjm
  • Syllabification: sejm
  • Homophone: Sejm

Noun

sejm m inan (related adjective sejmowy)

  1. (government) lower house of a bicameral parliament
    Coordinate term: senat
    Hypernym: parlament
    1. lower house (total number of people who sit in the lower house of a parliament)
    2. lower house (building of the lower house of a parliament)
  2. (government) parliament (legislative branch of government, a deliberative assembly or set of assemblies whose elected or appointed members meet to debate the major political issues of the day, make, amend, and repeal laws, authorize the executive branch of government to spend money, and in some cases exercise judicial powers)
    Synonym: parlament
    1. parliament (total number of people who sit in a parliament)
    Synonym: parlament
    1. parliament (building of a parliament)
    Synonym: parlament
  3. (ornithology) parliament (large flock of birds gathering in one place before flying off to warm countries)
    Synonym: sejmik
  4. (politics, historical) sejm (a political assembly or committee in Poland and the surrounding areas)

Declension

Derived terms

nouns
verbs
adjective
nouns
verbs

Descendants

Further reading

  • sejm in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • sejm in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • sejm in PWN's encyclopedia
  • Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “sejm”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  • SEJM”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 31.05.2009
  • Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “sejm”, in Słownik języka polskiego
  • Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “sejm”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
  • J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1915), “sejm”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 6, Warsaw, page 56