zdrada

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See also: Zdrada, zdradą, and Zdradą

Old Polish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Deverbal from zdradzić.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

zdrada f

  1. lie, untruth
    • 1939 , Ryszard Ganszyniec, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Kubica, Ludwik Bernacki, editors, Psałterz florjański łacińsko-polsko-niemiecki, Krakow: Zakład Narodowy imienia Ossolińskich, z zasiłkiem Sejmu Śląskiego , pages 23, 4:
      Iensze ne wzøl w prosznoscz dusze swoiey ani przisøgl iest w zdradze blisznemu swemu (nec iuravit in dolo proximo suo)
    1. (attested in Masovia) appropriation by deception or fraud
  2. treason, betrayal
    • Middle of the 15th century, Rozmyślanie o żywocie Pana Jezusa, page 444:
      A vzryavschy, yze svey ządzey slodzyeystvem nye mogl popelnycz, począl myslycz, kakoby sobye mogl zdradą vczynycz
  3. set-up, conspiracy
    • Middle of the 15th century, Rozmyślanie o żywocie Pana Jezusa, page 227:
      Sa mną bądzyesz bydlycz na vyeky przezpyeczno, nye boyacz szye ych zdrady (mecum permanebis perpetuo securus eorum ab insidiis)
  4. deceptiveness
    • Middle of the 15th century, Rozmyślanie o żywocie Pana Jezusa, page 338:
      Szdrada bogacztwa zastąpy v nym slovo boze (fallacia divitiarum suffocat verbum Mat 13, 22), yze bądzye przesz ovocza

Descendants

  • Polish: zdrada
  • Old Ruthenian: зрада (zrada)

References

Polish

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Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish zdrada. By surface analysis, deverbal from zdradzić.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈzdra.da/
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  • Rhymes: -ada
  • Syllabification: zdra‧da
  • Homophone: Zdrada

Noun

zdrada f

  1. treason, betrayal

Declension

Further reading

  • zdrada in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • zdrada in Polish dictionaries at PWN