podsypywać

• podsypować (Middle Polish)

From podsypać +‎ -ywać. First attested in 1564.^[1] Compare Kashubian pòdsëpòwac, and Silesian podsypować.

• Rhymes: -ɘvat͡ɕ
• Syllabification: pod‧sy‧py‧wać

podsypywać impf (perfective podsypać)

1. (transitive) to sprinkle under [with genitive] or [with accusative ‘what’] [with pod (+ accusative) ‘under what’]
2. (transitive) to top up (to provide some additional loose substance somewhere) [with genitive] or [with accusative ‘what’], [with dative ‘to what’], [with instrumental ‘with what’]
3. (transitive) to lift, to top up, to raise (to raise the level of something by adding some dirt or sand) [with instrumental ‘with what’]
4. (intransitive, of snow) to flurry (to come in small amounts)
5. (transitive, dated) to load (to fill a firearm with gunpowder) [with genitive] or [with accusative ‘what’], [with instrumental ‘with what’], [with na (+ accusative) ‘for what’]
6. (transitive, colloquial) to line; to supplement (to give someone additional, not very high amounts of something) [with genitive] or [with accusative ‘what’] [with dative ‘for whom’]

• podsypywać in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• podsypywać in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “podsypywać”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “podsypywać”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1908), “podsypywać”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw, page 424