godzić

Inherited from Old Polish godzić, from Proto-Slavic *godìti.

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• Rhymes: -ɔd͡ʑit͡ɕ
• Syllabification: go‧dzić

godzić impf (perfective pogodzić)

1. (transitive) to reconcile, to bring together, to accommodate (to restore a friendly relationship; to bring back to harmony)

   Synonyms: jednać, pojednywać

2. (transitive) to reconcile (to make things compatible or consistent)
3. (intransitive, literary) to aim at, to hit [with w (+ accusative) ‘at what’]

   Synonyms: celować, mierzyć, trafiać

4. (intransitive, obsolete) to aim at, to strive for [with do (+ genitive) ‘at what’]

   Synonym: dążyć

5. (intransitive, Kielce) to desire; to threaten [with na (+ accusative) ‘what’]

   Dzieci godzą na śmierć rodziców. ― The children are threatening their parents death.

6. (transitive) to endanger, to imperil, to jeopardize [with w (+ accusative) ‘what’]
7. (transitive, archaic) to hire, to employ (to obtain the services of (a person) in exchange for remuneration)

   Synonym: najmować

8. (reflexive with się) to reconcile [with z (+ instrumental) ‘with whom’]

   Synonym: pojednywać się

9. (reflexive with się, archaic) to be reconcilable [with z (+ instrumental) ‘with what’]
10. (reflexive with się) to submit (to yield or give way to another) [with na (+ accusative) ‘to what’]
11. (reflexive with się) to agree [with na (+ accusative) ‘on what’]

    Synonym: zgadzać się

12. (reflexive with się, archaic) to hire oneself out (to arrange to do work for money) [with do (+ genitive) ‘to what’]

    Synonym: najmować się

13. (reflexive with się, archaic) to be fit, to be suitable [with na (+ accusative) ‘for what’]

    Synonym: nadawać się

14. (reflexive with się, obsolete) to be related [with dative ‘to whom’]

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godzić impf

1. (reflexive with się, impersonal) to be becoming, to befit (to be appropriate due to adopted social norms)

   Synonyms: (archaic) przystać, wypadać

• godzić in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• godzić in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Władysław Siarkowski (1878), “godzić”, in “Materiały do etnografii ludu polskiego z okolic Kielc”, in Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowej (in Polish), volume 2, chapter 3, Krakow: Komisyja Antropologiczna Akademii Umiejętności w Krakowie, page 247