afstöŕăl

Polabian

Etymology

From Middle Low German afstü̂ren (“to turn aside”) +‎ -’ăl (inflectional ending).

Verb

afstöŕăl pf (third-person singular masculine past)

  1. (he has) separated (divided (a thing) into separate parts)
    • 1691 May 17, Georg Friedrich Mithoff, Mithoff's letter to Schrader:
      Tritĕ dan afstöŕăl kominĕ, vådă, ziḿă.
      The third day he separated stones, water (and) earth.
  2. (he has) removed (taken away)
    • 1691 May 17, Georg Friedrich Mithoff, Mithoff's letter to Schrader:
      Tok tǫ krig vå gancĕn velťĕ afstöŕăl.
      And so he should take away war in all the world.

References

  • Lehr-Spławiński, T.; Polański, K. (1962), “afstöŕəl”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka Drzewian połabskich [Etymological Dictionary of the Polabian Drevani Language] (in Polish), number 1 (A – ďüzd), Wrocław; Warszawa etc.: Ossolineum, page 1
  • Polański, Kazimierz; James Allen Sehnert (1967), “afstöŕăl”, in Polabian-English Dictionary, The Hague, Paris: Mouton & Co, page 32
  • Olesch, Reinhold (1962), “afstörial”, in Thesaurus Linguae Dravaenopolabicae [Thesaurus of the Drevani language] (in German), volumes 1: A – O, Cologne, Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, →ISBN, page 2
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