ciwun
Polish
Alternative forms
- cywun
- ciwon, tywon (Middle Polish)
- ciun, cijun (Northern Borderlands, Lithuania)
Etymology
Etymology tree
Inherited from Old Polish tywun.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈt͡si.vun/
- (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈt͡si.vun/
- (Masovia):
- (Podlachia) IPA(key): [ˈt͡si.vun]
- (Borderlands):
- (Northern Borderlands) IPA(key): [ˈt͡si.vun]
- Rhymes: -ivun
- Syllabification: ci‧wun
Noun
ciwun m pers
- (historical, in Poland or Lithuania or dialectal, Northern Borderlands, Lithuania) bailiff; steward (land official, estate manager or border judge)
- (Podlachia, Northern Borderlands, Lithuania) synonym of gumienny (“threshing floor chief”)
Declension
Declension of ciwun
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | ciwun | ciwunowie |
| genitive | ciwuna | ciwunów |
| dative | ciwunowi | ciwunom |
| accusative | ciwuna | ciwunów |
| instrumental | ciwunem | ciwunami |
| locative | ciwunie | ciwunach |
| vocative | ciwunie | ciwunowie |
Further reading
- ciwun in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Maria Renata Mayenowa; Stanisław Rospond; Witold Taszycki; Stefan Hrabec; Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023), “ciwon”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- “CIWUN”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 31.03.2018
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814), “ciwun”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “ciwun”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “ciwun”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 342
- Jan Karłowicz (1900), “ciwun”, in Słownik gwar polskich [Dictionary of Polish dialects] (in Polish), volume 1: A do E, Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, page 243
- ciwun in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego