posiew

Old Polish

Etymology

Deverbal from posiewać. First attested in 1491.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

posiew m animacy unattested

  1. sown or harvested grain
    • 1868 [1491], Akta grodzkie i ziemskie z czasów Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej : z archiwum tak zwanego bernardyńskiego we Lwowie w skutek fundacyi śp. Alexandra hr. Stadnickiego, volume XIX, page 391:
      Quos homines invadiando recepisti de eisdem violenter labores et sementa al. possev tritici et siliginis ad ipsum Nicolaum spectancia
      [Quos homines invadiando recepisti de eisdem violenter labores et sementa al. posiew tritici et siliginis ad ipsum Nicolaum spectancia]

Derived terms

nouns
  • posiewki
verbs
  • posiewać impf

Descendants

  • Polish: posiew

References

Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish posiew. By surface analysis, deverbal from posiewać.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɔ.ɕɛf/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈpɔ.ɕef/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔɕɛf
  • Syllabification: po‧siew

Noun

posiew m inan

  1. (countable, medicine) culture test (medical exam or test wherein a substance from a person's body or environment is placed in a special solution that allows the development of microorganisms) [+ z (genitive) = from what]
    1. (countable, medicine) culture (substance analyzed during such a test) [+ z (genitive) = from what]
  2. (uncountable, agriculture) sowing (act of sowing seeds)
    Synonyms: obsiew, siew, wysiew, zasiew
    1. (countable, agriculture) all plants planted this way
      Synonym: zasiew
  3. (uncountable, literary, by extension) sowing (act of repeated spreading of an idea or repeating an action, the effects of which will be apparent after some time)
    1. (uncountable, literary) fruit (results of such spreading)

Declension

Further reading

  • posiew in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • posiew in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “posiew”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  • Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “posiew”, in Słownik języka polskiego
  • Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “posiew”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
  • A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1908), “posiew”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw, page 740
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