siekiera
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Old Polish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sekyra.
Pronunciation
Noun
siekiera f (diminutive siekierka)
- (attested in Greater Poland) axe, hatchet (tool for felling trees or chopping wood etc. consisting of a heavy head flattened to a blade on one side, and a handle attached to it)
- 1960 [1402], Henryk Kowalewicz, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz, editors, Wielkopolskie roty sądowe XIV-XV wieku, Roty pyzdrskie, volume II, number 168, Pyzdry:
- Czso Vøcenesz ranil Iana, to gi ranil gego poczøtkem, is... s szekirø nan bezal
- [Cso Więceniec ranił Jana, to ji ranił jego początkiem, iż... z siekirą nań bieżał]
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Descendants
- Polish: siekiera
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), “siekiera”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN
Polish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Polish siekiera.
Pronunciation
Noun
siekiera f (diminutive siekierka)
Declension
Declension of siekiera
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nouns