uwalić
Old Polish edit
Etymology edit
From u- + walić. First attested in the fifteenth century. Compare Old Czech uvaliti.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
uwalić pf (imperfective uwalać)
- (reflexive with się) The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:
- to fall into
- 1930 [Fifteenth century], “Num”, in Ludwik Bernacki, editor, Biblia królowej Zofii (Biblia szaroszpatacka)[1], 16, 26:
- Odiczcze od stanow nyemilosciwich lvdzi a nye dotikaycze syø, czso k nim przislvscha, a nye walicze syø w grzech gich (ne involvamini in peccatis eorum)
- [Odydźcie od stanow niemiłościwych ludzi a nie dotykajcie się, cso k nim przysłucha, a nie uwalicie się w grzech jich (ne involvamini in peccatis eorum)]
- to fall into
Usage notes edit
Possibly also wwalić.
Descendants edit
- Polish: uwalić
References edit
- B. Sieradzka-Baziur, editor (2011–2015), “uwalić”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old Polish uwalić. By surface analysis, u- + walić.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /uˈva.lit͡ɕ/
- (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /uˈva.lit͡ɕ/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -alit͡ɕ
- Syllabification: u‧wa‧lić
Verb edit
uwalić pf (imperfective uwalać)
- (transitive, colloquial) to get dirty (to cause to become dirty) [+instrumental = with what]
- (transitive, colloquial) to make impossible (to cause certain actions to be abandoned or their implementation impossible)
- Synonym: utrącić
- (transitive, colloquial) to knock out (to remove the possibility of promotion or out of a position)
- Synonym: utrącić
- (transitive, colloquial, education) to fail (to give a student a failing grade) [+ z (genitive) = in what subject]
- (transitive, colloquial) to break (to cause something to stop functioning properly or become unusable)
- (reflexive with się, colloquial) to get dirty (to become dirty) [+instrumental = with what]
- Synonyms: ubrudzić się, uświnić się
- (reflexive with się) to flump (to fall helplessly to a certain place)
- Synonym: zwalić się
- (reflexive with się) to get loaded, to get blasted, to get wasted (to become very drunk) [+inc = off of what]
- Synonyms: ochlać się, uchlać się
- (reflexive with się) to whack oneself (to hit oneself somewhere)
Conjugation edit
Further reading edit
- uwalić in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- uwalić in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “uwalić”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “uwalić”, in Słownik języka polskiego[2]
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “uwalić”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861[3]
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1919), “uwalić”, in Słownik języka polskiego[4] (in Polish), volume 7, Warsaw, page 409