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Old Polish
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *žerbьcь. By surface analysis, źrebię + -ec.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /ʑrɛbjɛt͡s/
- IPA(key): (15th CE) /ʑrɛbjɛt͡s/
Noun
źrebiec m animacy unattested
- (sometimes collective, attested in Greater Poland) colt (young horse)
- Synonym: źrebię
1959 [1389], Henryk Kowalewicz, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz, editors, Wielkopolskie roty sądowe XIV-XV wieku, Roty poznańskie, volume I, number 54, Poznań:Czso mi ranczil Bogufal za szrzebecz y kobilø, tho stalo za trzi grziwni- [Czso mi ręczył Bogufał za źrzebiec i kobyłę, to stało za trzy grzywny]
Descendants
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), “źrebiec”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN
Polish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Polish źrebiec. By surface analysis, źrebię + -ec. Doublet of Żerebiec.
Pronunciation
Noun
źrebiec m animal (female equivalent źrebica)
- (archaic) young male horse; a colt
- (obsolete) young equine (any member of the genus Equus)
Declension
Further reading
- źrebiec in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- źrebiec in Polish dictionaries at PWN