wykusz
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Old Polish
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Noun
wykusz m animacy unattested
- shooting range extending beyond a wall (part of a defensive structure in the form in the upper part of a defensive wall or defensive tower)
- 1930 [c. 1455], “Jud”, in Ludwik Bernacki, editor, Biblia królowej Zofii (Biblia szaroszpatacka), 9, 51:
- […] a na strzesze wyeszney... wikusze (super turris tectum stantes per propugnacula)
- [ […] a na strzesze wieżnej... *wykusze (super turris tectum stantes per propugnacula)]
- (attested in Southern Borderlands) The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:
- cottage; poorer house
- 1892-1921 [1387], Aleksander Czołowski, Franciszek Jaworski, editors, Pomniki dziejowe Lwowa z archiwum miasta, , , , volume I, Lviv, page 85:
- Ex parte Thome braseatoris thugurium, quod *wychus vlg. nominatur, retro Martinum circa valuam iacentem, claudo Michaeli carnifici iuste vendicionis titulo libere resignauit
- [Ex parte Thome braseatoris thugurium, quod wykusz vlg. nominatur, retro Martinum circa valuam iacentem, claudo Michaeli carnifici iuste vendicionis titulo libere resignauit]
- cottage; poorer house
References
- 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), “wykusz”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN
Polish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Polish wykusz.
Pronunciation
Noun
wykusz m inan
Declension
Declension of wykusz