pastwa
Polish
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pastъva. By surface analysis, paść + -twa.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpa.stfa/
- (Greater Poland):
- (Kuyavia) IPA(key): /ˈpa.stfa/
- (Northern Greater Poland) IPA(key): /ˈpa.stfa/
- (Eastern Greater Poland) IPA(key): /ˈpa.stfa/
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -astfa
- Syllabification: pa‧stwa
Noun
pastwa f
- (obsolete) prey, food of a predator
- Synonym: żer
- (obsolete) booty, loot, spoils
- (Northern Greater Poland, Eastern Greater Poland, Kuyavia) synonym of pasza (“fodder”)
Declension
Declension of pastwa
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | pastwa | pastwy |
| genitive | pastwy | pastw |
| dative | pastwie | pastwom |
| accusative | pastwę | pastwy |
| instrumental | pastwą | pastwami |
| locative | pastwie | pastwach |
| vocative | pastwo | pastwy |
Derived terms
adjective
noun
Further reading
- pastwa in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego/pastwa on the Polish Wikisource.Wikisource pl
- Oskar Kolberg (1867) “pastwa”, in Dzieła wszystkie: Kujawy (in Polish), page 274
- Oskar Kolberg (1877) “pastwa”, in “Rzecz o mowie ludu wielkopolskiego”, in Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowéj (in Polish), volume 1, III (Materyjały etnologiczne), page 35