skwor
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Old Polish
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *skvorъ.
Pronunciation
Noun
skwor m animacy unattested
- (attested in Lesser Poland) earwig
- 1874-1891 [15th century], Rozprawy i Sprawozdania z Posiedzeń Wydziału Filologicznego Akademii Umiejętności, , , volume LIII, Krakow, page 62:
- Quis habet in aure skwory, recipe corticem de radice nucis avellane cum succo et cum carbonibus tilie contunde..., extrahe succum et infunde ad aurem et hoc mortificat
- [Quis habet in aure skwory, recipe corticem de radice nucis avellane cum succo et cum carbonibus tilie contunde..., extrahe succum et infunde ad aurem et hoc mortificat]
Related terms
nouns
verb
- skwirczeć impf
Descendants
- ⇒ Polish: skorek
Further reading
Słownik_etymologiczny_języka_polskiego/skwar(a) on the Polish Wikisource.Wikisource pl- 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), “skwor”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN
