Masurian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Polish chodzić. By surface analysis, chód +‎ -icz.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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chodżicz impf (indeterminate, imperfective determinate iszcz)

  1. (intransitive) to walk (to move by means of one's feet)
  2. (intransitive) to stop by, to visit [with po (+ accusative) ‘whom’]
  3. (intransitive) to date; to court (to strive for someone's romantic interest or to be in a relationship with) [with z (+ instrumental) ‘with whom’]/[with do (+ genitive) ‘for whose interest’]
  4. (intransitive) to hunt; to gather; to fish [with na (+ accusative) ‘what’]
  5. (intransitive) to engage with, to be involved with, to deal with [with nad (+ instrumental) or kole (+ genitive) ‘with what’]
  6. (intransitive) to herd, to pasture [with za (+ instrumental) ‘what’]
  7. (intransitive, of devices) to work [with na (+ locative) ‘on a source of power’]
  8. (intransitive, of movies) to be shown
  9. (intransitive, of one's head) to spin (to be dizzy)
  10. (intransitive) to work; to function; (of a watch) to tick
  11. (intransitive, of vehicles) to go (to follow a particular route)
  12. (intransitive, i.e. of caught fish) to move; to shake
  13. (intransitive, of water or wind) to flow
  14. (intransitive, of dough) to rise
  15. (impersonal) to mean, to be on about; to have in mind [with dative ‘who, i.e. the subject of the English sentence’] [with ô (+ accusative) ‘(about) who or what/what in mind’]
    Synonym: iszcz

Further reading

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  • Zofia Stamirowska (1987-2024) “chodzić”, in Anna Basara, editor, Słownik gwar Ostródzkiego, Warmii i Mazur, volume 1, Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich Wydawnictwo Polskiej Akademii Nauk, →ISBN, pages 298-302