źrebiec

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See also: Źrebiec and Żrebiec

Old Polish

Alternative forms

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

  1. (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

  • Polish: źrebiec

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)

  1. (archaic) young male horse; a colt
  2. (obsolete) young equine (any member of the genus Equus)

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Further reading

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