zadra

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See also: zadrą

Old Polish

Etymology

Deverbal from zadrać. First attested in 1470.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

zadra f

  1. (attested in Masovia, hapax) splinter (small piece of wood broken off a tree)
    • 1950 [1470], Władysław Kuraszkiewicz, Adam Wolff, editors, Zapiski i roty polskie XV-XVI wieku z ksiąg sądowych ziemi warszawskiej, number 2949, Warsaw:
      Czom vczynyl, thom vczinyl za gego poczathkyem, gdy mą renyl w rąką schadrą kolowa
      [Com uczynił, tom uczynił za jego początkiem, gdy mię renił w rękę zadrą kołową]

Descendants

  • Polish: zadra

References

Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish zadra.

Pronunciation

 
  • Rhymes: -adra
  • Syllabification: za‧dra

Noun

zadra f

  1. splinter (long, sharp fragment of material, often wood)
  2. painful memory
  3. (Chełmno-Dobrzyń) Synonym of przeszkoda

Declension

Further reading

  • zadra in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • zadra in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Gustaw Pobłocki (1887) “zadra”, in Słownik kaszubski z dodatkiem idyotyzmów chełmińskich i kociewskich (in Polish), 2 edition, Chełmno, page 145