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warzywo

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warzywa

Etymology

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Inherited from Old Polish warzywo. By surface analysis, warzyć +‎ -ywo. Compare Kashubian warzëwò.

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -ɘvɔ
  • Syllabification: wa‧rzy‧wo

Noun

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warzywo n (related adjective warzywny or warzywowy)

  1. vegetable (plant raised for some edible part of it, such as the leaves, roots, fruit, or flowers, but excluding any plant considered to be a fruit, grain, herb, or spice in the culinary sense)
    Synonym: jarzyna
  2. (colloquial, derogatory, figurative) vegetable (person that is brain dead or suffers from extensive paralysis)

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Further reading

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  • warzywo in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • warzywo in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Oskar Kolberg (1877) “warzywo”, in “Rzecz o mowie ludu wielkopolskiego”, in Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowéj (in Polish), volume 1, III (Materyjały etnologiczne), page 25