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pastwa

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Polish

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pastъva. By surface analysis, paść +‎ -twa.

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -astfa
  • Syllabification: pa‧stwa

Noun

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pastwa f

  1. (obsolete) prey, food of a predator
    Synonym: żer
  2. (obsolete) booty, loot, spoils
  3. (Northern Greater Poland, Eastern Greater Poland, Kuyavia) Synonym of pasza (fodder)

Declension

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Derived terms

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adjective
noun

Further reading

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  • pastwa in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego/pastwa on the Polish Wikisource.Wikisource pl
  • Oskar Kolberg (1867) “pastwa”, in Dzieła wszystkie: Kujawy (in Polish), page 274
  • Oskar Kolberg (1877) “pastwa”, in “Rzecz o mowie ludu wielkopolskiego”, in Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowéj (in Polish), volume 1, III (Materyjały etnologiczne), page 35