łokać

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Old Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lokàti.

Pronunciation

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

Verb

łokać impf

  1. to lap, to guzzle
    • 1901 [1471], Materiały i Prace Komisji Językowej Akademii Umiejętności w Krakowie, volume V, page 33:
      Lokacz lambere (dixit dominus ad Gedeon: Qui lingua lambuerint aquas, sicut solent canes lambere, separabis eos seorsum, qui autem curvatis genibus biberint in altera parte erunt Jud 7, 5)
      [Łokać lambere (dixit dominus ad Gedeon: Qui lingua lambuerint aquas, sicut solent canes lambere, separabis eos seorsum, qui autem curvatis genibus biberint in altera parte erunt Jud 7, 5)]
nouns

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), “łokać”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN