starc

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *starьcь.

• IPA^(key): /start͡s/

starc m anim

1. old man

• Starosta, Manfred (1999) “starc”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

From Proto-West Germanic *stark, from Proto-Germanic *starkaz.

starc

1. strong, powerful
2. firm, steadfast
3. intense

• Middle Dutch: starc, sterc
  • Dutch: sterk
    • Negerhollands: stark, sterk
      • → Virgin Islands Creole: sterek (dated)
    • → Indonesian: ster (“queen (chess)”)
    • → Papiamentu: stèrki
  • Limburgish: stèrk

• “stark (I)”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Ciszewski says this is a mazurized form of starcz. Deverbal of sterczeć?”)

• (Masovia):
  • (Far Masovian) IPA^(key): /ˈstart͡s/

starc m inan

1. (Far Masovian) dry tree stump in a meadow

• Stanisław Ciszewski (1909) “starc”, in “Przyczynek do słownika gwary mazowieckiej”, in Prace Filologiczne (in Polish), volume 7, z. 1, Warsaw: skł. gł. w Księgarni E. Wende i Ska, page 209

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *starьcь.

• IPA^(key): /ˈstart͡s/
• Rhymes: -art͡s
• Syllabification: starc

starc m pers

1. old man

• Lorentz, Friedrich (1912) “stãrc”, in Slovinzisches Wörterbuch‎^[1] (in German), volume 2, Saint Petersburg: ОРЯС ИАН, page 1089

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *starьcь. By surface analysis, stary +‎ -c.

• IPA^(key): /ˈstaʀt͡s/
• Rhymes: -aʀt͡s
• Hyphenation: starc
• Syllabification: starc

starc m pers

1. old man

   Synonyms: staruch, šědźiwc

• “starc” in Soblex