pójć

Old Polish

Alternative forms

• póć

Etymology

From po- +‎ ić. The shift of -o- to -ó- is due to frequent use of the word. /ɔ/ usually shifted to /o/ in closed syllables (compare łoże, łożyć -> łóżko) except in prefixes and adpositions. The frequency of the word highly lexicalized it, causing the shift. Compare Middle Polish dójść (modern dojść). First attested in the 15th century.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /pɔːjt͡ɕ/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /pojt͡ɕ/

Verb

pójć pf

1. to start going, to get going
2. to come from (to have an origin somewhere)
3. to act accordingly [with w (+ locative) or po (+ locative) ‘to what’]
4. to leave a peasant's farm
5. (of things or phenomena) to appear, to show up
6. to sprawl, to extend, to roll
7. to start from someone [with od (+ genitive) ‘from whom’]
8. to become the property of someone [with ku (+ dative) ‘whose property’]
9. (of eyes) to go, to cloud (to lose the ability to see)
10. (of a court date) to take place without rescheduling
11. (of abstract concepts) to happen, to occur, to appear
12. to change into [with w (+ accusative) ‘into what’]
13. (of time) to come
14. corruption of posiec

Derived terms

noun

• poście

 

verbs

• poszła rzecz pf
• poć ku skazaniu pf
• pójć bytem pf
• pójć w dniach pf
• pójć w lata pf
• pójć w liczbę pf
• pójć w lud pf
• pójć za się wspak pf

 

Related terms

verbs

• ić impf

 

Descendants

• Masurian: pójszcz, pószcz (through regularization)
• Polish: pójść (through regularization)
• Silesian: pōjś (through regularization)

References

• Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “pójć”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
• B. Sieradzka-Baziur, editor (2011–2015), “(pójść) póć, pójć”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN
• Ewa Deptuchowa, Mariusz Frodyma, Katarzyna Jasińska, Magdalena Klapper, Dorota Kołodziej, Mariusz Leńczuk, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, editors (2023), “pójć”, in Rozariusze z polskimi glosami. Internetowa baza danych [Dictionaries of Polish glosses, an Internet database] (in Polish), Kraków: Pracownia Języka Staropolskiego Instytut Języka Polskiego Polskiej Akademii Nauk