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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)
- 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]
- 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
- 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), “wnęk”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN
Polish
Pronunciation
Noun
wnęk f
- genitive plural of wnęka