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Polish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Polish sąmnienie. Compare Lithuanian sąmonė.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɛɲɛ
- Syllabification: su‧mie‧nie
Noun
sumienie n (diminutive sumieńko)
- conscience (moral sense of right and wrong)
- (Żywiec) Synonym of piersi
Declension
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Further reading
- sumienie in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- sumienie in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Leon Rzeszowski (1891) “sumienie”, in “Spis wyrazów ludowych z okolic Żywca”, in Sprawozdania Komisyi Językowej Akademii Umiejętności, volume 4, Krakow: Drukarnia Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, page 360
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1915), “sumienie”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 6, Warsaw, page 511
- Brückner, Aleksander (1927) “sumienie”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna