pewnić
Old Polish edit
Etymology edit
From pewny + -ić. First attested in the end of the fifteenth century. Compare Old Czech pevniti.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
pewnić impf
- to make sure, to make certain; to make unchanging
- 1876 [End of the fifteenth century], Vatroslav Jagić, editor, Archiv für slavische Philologie[1], volume XII, page 144:
- Pewny firmat
- [Pewni firmat]
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Descendants edit
- Polish: pewnić
References edit
- Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000), “pewnić”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
- B. Sieradzka-Baziur, editor (2011–2015), “pewnić”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old Polish pewnić. By surface analysis, pewny + -ić.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /ˈpɛv.ɲit͡ɕ/
- (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈpɛv.ɲit͡ɕ/
- Rhymes: -ɛvɲit͡ɕ
- Syllabification: pew‧nić
Verb edit
pewnić impf
- (obsolete, transitive) to assure
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Further reading edit
- “pewnić”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish], 2010-2023
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807-1814), “pewnić”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “pewnić”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1908), “pewnić”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw, page 124