Reconstruction:Old Polish/pustoszyć

This Old Polish entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Old Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Old East Slavic пустошити (pustošiti), as indicated by prefixed forms being attested mainly in eastern sources.[1] Alternatively borrowed from Old Czech *pustošiti,[2] (however, Czech pustošit might be borrowed from Russian пустоши́ть (pustošítʹ)[3]) or inherited from Proto-Slavic *pustošiti, compare Serbo-Croatian пусто̀шити / pustòšiti.

Pronunciation

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

Verb

*pustoszyć impf

  1. to ravage, to devastate

Derived terms

verbs
  • opustoszyć pf
  • spustoszyć pf
  • wspustoszyć pf
  • wypustoszyć pf

Descendants

  • Polish: pustoszyć
    • Kashubian: pùstoszëc
  • Silesian: pustoszyć

References

  1. ^ Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “Old Polish/pustoszyć”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN, page 503
  2. ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “pustoszyć”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), volume 966, page 2
  3. ^ Jiří Rejzek (2007) “pustošit”, in Český etymologický slovník (in Czech), Leda, page 546