posiew

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Old Polish

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Etymology

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Deverbal from posiewać. First attested in 1491.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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posiew m animacy unattested

  1. sown or harvested grain
    • 1868 [1491], Akta grodzkie i ziemskie z czasów Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej : z archiwum tak zwanego bernardyńskiego we Lwowie w skutek fundacyi śp. Alexandra hr. Stadnickiego[1], volume XIX, page 391:
      Quos homines invadiando recepisti de eisdem violenter labores et sementa al. possev tritici et siliginis ad ipsum Nicolaum spectancia
      [Quos homines invadiando recepisti de eisdem violenter labores et sementa al. posiew tritici et siliginis ad ipsum Nicolaum spectancia]

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Descendants

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  • Polish: posiew

References

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Polish

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Polish posiew. By surface analysis, deverbal from posiewać.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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posiew m inan

  1. (countable, medicine) culture test (medical exam or test wherein a substance from a person's body or environment is placed in a special solution that allows the development of microorganisms) [with z (+ genitive) ‘from what’]
    1. (countable, medicine) culture (substance analyzed during such a test) [with z (+ genitive) ‘from what’]
  2. (uncountable, agriculture) sowing (act of sowing seeds)
    Synonyms: obsiew, siew, wysiew, zasiew
    1. (countable, agriculture) all plants planted this way
      Synonym: zasiew
  3. (uncountable, literary, by extension) sowing (act of repeated spreading of an idea or repeating an action, the effects of which will be apparent after some time)
    1. (uncountable, literary) fruit (results of such spreading)

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