kurdziel

See also: Kurdziel

Old Polish

Etymology

Uncertain. First attested in the 15th century.

  • Per Bruckner, perhaps from kur +‎ -el with a secondary -d-.
  • Sławski via Matzenauer suggests it was borrowed from Middle High German gurfei.
  • Bańkowski supposes a compound of kur +‎ (-o-) +‎ dzielić.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /kurd͡ʑʲɛːlʲ/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /kurd͡ʑʲelʲ/

Noun

kurdziel m animacy unattested

  1. (hapax legomenon) ulcer on a horse's tongue
    Synonym: kurdziej
    • 1939 [XV p. post.], Adam Bednarski, editor, Materiały do dziejów medycyny polskiej w XIV i XV stuleciu[1], page 38:
      Contra kurdzel
      [Contra kurdziel]
nouns
  • kurdziej

Descendants

  • Polish: kurdziel

References

Polish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish kurdziel.

Pronunciation

 
  • IPA(key): /ˈkur.d͡ʑɛl/
  • Rhymes: -urd͡ʑɛl
  • Syllabification: kur‧dziel
  • Homophone: Kurdziel

Noun

kurdziel m inan (related adjective kurdzielowy)

  1. (obsolete or dialectal, Southern Borderlands, Eastern Galicia, Podhale, Eastern Kraków, Jurków, Przemyśl, Biecz, Ropczyce, Western Kraków, Marszowice, Wieliczka, Osieczan, Myślenice) ulcer on the tongue or sometimes lips of a farm animal, usually a cow, horse, or sometimes sheep sometimes caused by trauma from foreign bodies
    Mój panie oset. Zebyś ty do tego konia kastanowatego posed. Wygnał kurdziela i kurdzielice. Samica i Samice. (spell of removal, Southern Borderlands, Eastern Galicia)
    My lord thistle. May you come to this chestnut horse. And chase out the mouth disease. From both the stud and studmare.
    Jako u czowieła rak, u konia kurdziel. (Podhale)
    As a man has cancer, so has a horse tongue disease.
    Siedzi zaba na ôgonie, a ôgon ji kurdziel łámie. (Eastern Kraków, Jurków, Podhale)
    The frog sits on the tail, and the tail breaks its tongue disease.

Declension

Noun

kurdziel m animal

  1. (Biecz, Strzeszyn) long, thin bug that enters a cattle's or horse's leg or mouth from a marsh or wet meadow; if it enters the mouth the animal can't eat; upon entering a small hole appears and remains visible from which red fluid flows

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