meszne

Old Polish

Etymology

From meszny +‎ -e. First attested in 1400.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

meszne n

  1. type of annual tribute paid by the faithful to the parish (probably obliging the parish priest to celebrate mass)
    • 1868 [1400], Akta grodzkie i ziemskie z czasów Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej : z archiwum tak zwanego bernardyńskiego we Lwowie w skutek fundacyi śp. Alexandra hr. Stadnickiego[1], volume III (quotation in Old Polish; overall work in Polish, Latin, and Old Polish), page 146:
      Pro dacione missali, que alias meszne dicitur
      [Pro dacione missali, que alias meszne dicitur]

Descendants

  • Polish: meszne

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), “meszne”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

Polish

Pronunciation

 
  • IPA(key): /ˈmɛʂ.nɛ/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛʂnɛ
  • Syllabification: mesz‧ne

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Polish meszne. By surface analysis, meszny +‎ -e.

Noun

meszne n

  1. (nominalized, historical or dialectal, Central Greater Poland, Chełmno) type of annual tribute paid by the faithful to the parish, probably obliging the parish priest to celebrate mass (Is there an English equivalent to this definition?)
Declension

Etymology 2

From meszny +‎ -e.

Noun

meszne n

  1. (nominalized, obsolete) forest where bears have their lair (Is there an English equivalent to this definition?)
Declension

Adjective

meszne

  1. inflection of meszny:
    1. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular
    2. nonvirile nominative/accusative/vocative plural

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