szałwia

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin salvia, from salvus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʂaw.vja/

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• Rhymes: -awvja
• Syllabification: szał‧wia

Noun

szałwia f

1. sage, any plant of the genus Salvia

Declension

Declension of szałwia

	singular	plural
nominative	szałwia	szałwie
genitive	szałwii/szałwi	szałwii/szałwi
dative	szałwii/szałwi	szałwiom
accusative	szałwię	szałwie
instrumental	szałwią	szałwiami
locative	szałwii/szałwi	szałwiach
vocative	szałwio	szałwie

Note: etymologically, the declension should follow the pattern for Latinate nouns ending in -ia (see e.g. historia, entalpia), and thus contain geminated i in the genitive, dative, locative and genitive plural. However, the word is highly assimilated, and thus the native feminine declension with single i is also common. Current usage on the Internet seems to favor the geminated i form by around 3:1.

Descendants

• → Yiddish: שאַלוויִע (shalvie)

Further reading

• szałwia in Polish dictionaries at PWN