wnęk

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See also: Wnek and Wnęk

Old Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *vъnukъ with secondary nasalization.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /vnæ̃k/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /vnæ̃k/

Noun

wnęk m animacy unattested (female equivalent wnęka)

  1. grandson
    • 1930 [c. 1455], “Gen”, in Ludwik Bernacki, editor, Biblia królowej Zofii (Biblia szaroszpatacka), 31, 28:
      Nye chczyalesz my dacz mich dzewek a mich wnøkow (filios meos et filias) poczalowacz
      [Nie chciałeś mi dać mych dziewek a mych wnękow (filios meos et filias) pocałować]
    • 1856-1870 [1403], Antoni Zygmunt Helcel, editor, Starodawne Prawa Polskiego Pomniki, volume II, number 965:
      Heduigis totam medietatem opidi... Ottoni, filio Wincencii..., wnanconi suo ordinando, ... assignauit
      [Heduigis totam medietatem opidi... Ottoni, filio Wincencii..., wnękoni suo ordinando, ... assignauit]
    • 1856-1870 [1402], Antoni Zygmunt Helcel, editor, Starodawne Prawa Polskiego Pomniki, volume II, number 881:
      Heduigis... duas villas... Ottoni et Heduigi, wnancom suis,... assignauit
      [Heduigis... duas villas... Ottoni et Heduigi, wnękom suis,... assignauit]
  2. offspring
    • 1977-1980 [1471], Wanda Żurowska-Górecka, Vladimír Kyas, editors, Mamotrekty staropolskie [Old Polish-Latin Dictionaries and wordlists], page 205:
      Wnąky nepotes (semen benedictorum domini est et nepotes eorum cum eis Is 65, 23)
      [Wnęki nepotes (semen benedictorum domini est et nepotes eorum cum eis Is 65, 23)]

Further reading

Polish

Pronunciation

Noun

wnęk f

  1. genitive plural of wnęka