drżeć
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[edit]Inherited from Proto-Slavic *drъžati. Compare Lower Sorbian rdžaś and Russian дрожа́ть (drožátʹ).
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[edit]drżeć impf (perfective zadrżeć)
- (intransitive) to tremble, to shiver (to shake; to quiver; to vibrate)
- 1888, Henryk Sienkiewicz, chapter 7, in Jeremiah Curtin, transl., Potop:
- Wszystko drżało przed Chmielnickim, a on drżał przede mną. I te same wojska, które w czasach powszechnej klęski od wiktoryi do wiktoryi wiodłem, dziś mnie opuściły i rękę na mnie, jako parrycydowie podnoszą...
- Everything trembled before Hmelnitski, but he trembled before me. And the very men whom in time of universal disaster I led from victory to victory, forsake me today and raise their hands against me as against a parricide...
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