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Polish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Polish stągiew, from Old High German standa. Compare Czech štoudev.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɔŋɡjɛf
- Syllabification: stą‧giew
Noun
stągiew f (diminutive stągiewka)
- vat (large stationary vessel for holding liquids)
- Synonyms: fasa, kadź
- (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