pociąg

Polish

pociąg

Alternative forms

  • ciapong (childish or ironic, humorous)

Etymology

Deverbal from pociągać. Sense 1 is a semantic loan from French train, English train, and German Zug.[1] Sense 2 is a semantic loan from French inclination.[1] First attested in 1550.[2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɔ.t͡ɕɔŋk/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔt͡ɕɔŋk
  • Syllabification: po‧ciąg

Noun

pociąg m inan (related adjective pociągowy)

  1. train (vehicle)
    Pociąg do Warszawy odjeżdża za godzinę. ― The train to Warsaw departs in an hour.
  2. inclination, predilection, proclivity, predisposition, penchant (mental tendency)
  3. (Middle Polish, construction) traverse holding up a wooden construction [16th century][2] (Is there an English equivalent to this definition?)
  4. (Middle Polish, birding) line that one pulls to close a fowler's net [16th century][2] (Is there an English equivalent to this definition?)
  5. (Middle Polish, sailing) sail (piece of fabric attached to a boat) [16th century][2]
    Synonym: żagiel
  6. (obsolete) animal-drawn vehicle [17th–19th c.][3][4]
  7. (obsolete) pulling (act of pulling) [17th–19th c.][5][4]
    Synonym: pociąganie

Declension

verbs

References

  1. Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “pociąg”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  2. Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  3. Paweł Kupiszewski (04.09.2018) “POCIĄG”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
  4. Witold Doroszewski, editor (1958–1969), “pociąg”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), Warszawa: PWN
  5. Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) Słownik języka polskiego‎, volume 2, page 772

Further reading

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