kasać

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Old Polish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *kasati.

Pronunciation[edit]

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

Verb[edit]

kasać impf (perfective zakasać)

  1. to surround, encircle, to squeeze; to roll up
    • 1901 [1471], Materiały i Prace Komisji Językowej Akademii Umiejętności w Krakowie, volume V, page 62:
      Kaschą schą okolo mnye succinxerunt (in multitudine eorum, sc. dolorum, consumitur vestimentum meum, et quasi capitio tunicae succinxerunt me Job 30, 18)
      [Kaszą się około mnie succinxerunt (in multitudine eorum, sc. dolorum, consumitur vestimentum meum, et quasi capitio tunicae succinxerunt me Job 30, 18)]
  2. (attested in Greater Poland) The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:
    1. to commit to something; to come to terms with something
      • 1959 [1397], Henryk Kowalewicz, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz, editors, Wielkopolskie roty sądowe XIV-XV wieku, Roty poznańskie, volume I, number 342, Poznań:
        Jaco Marczin, moy sin, ne kasal na soltistof dom ani go ranil wf gego dome
        [Jako Marcin, moj syn, nie kasał na sołtysow dom ani go ranił w jego domie]

Related terms[edit]

verb
noun

Descendants[edit]

  • Polish: (obsolete) kasać

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