stągiew

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Polish

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Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish stągiew, from Old High German standa. Compare Czech štoudev.

Pronunciation

 
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  • Rhymes: -ɔŋɡjɛf
  • Syllabification: stą‧giew

Noun

stągiew f (diminutive stągiewka)

  1. vat (large stationary vessel for holding liquids)
    Synonyms: fasa, kadź
  2. (metrology, historical) unit of fluid measure, approximate to 200 litres

Declension

Further reading

  • stągiew in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Wojciech Grzegorzewicz (1894) “stąǵew”, in Sprawozdania Komisji Językowej Akademii Umiejętności (in Polish), volume 5, Krakow: Akademia Umiejętności, page 122
  • Oskar Kolberg (1877) “stągiew”, in “Rzecz o mowie ludu wielkopolskiego”, in Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowéj (in Polish), volume 1, III (Materyjały etnologiczne), page 23