imiesłów

Polish

Etymology

Compound of imię (noun) + słowo (verb). Coined by Polish priest and grammarian Onufry Kopczyński in 1778.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /iˈmjɛ.swuf/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /iˈmjɛs.ɫof/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛswuf
  • Syllabification: i‧mie‧słów

Noun

imiesłów m inan

  1. (grammar) participle

Declension

Derived terms

adjective
nouns

References

  1. Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “imiesłów”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)

Further reading

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