piekło

Old Polish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Czech peklo, from Proto-Slavic *pьkъlъ (tar, pitch), from Proto-Indo-European *pik- (pitch). The meaning of “hell” originated in Old Czech, which is a semantic loan of Middle High German pech (tar, pitch; hell).[1] First attested in the mid 14th century.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /pʲɛkɫɔ/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /pʲɛkɫɔ/

Noun

piekło n

  1. (religion, attested in Lesser Poland) hell (place of torment in the afterlife)
  2. (Christianity, attested in Lesser Poland) afterlife (place of residence of the souls of the righteous before the resurrection of Christ)

Derived terms

adjectives

Descendants

  • Polish: piekło

References

  1. ^ Boryś, Wiesław (2005), “piekło”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN, page 428

Polish

Pronunciation

 
  • IPA(key): /ˈpjɛ.kwɔ/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛkwɔ
  • Syllabification: pie‧kło

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Polish piekło, from Old Czech peklo, from Proto-Slavic *pьkъlъ (tar, pitch), from Proto-Indo-European *pik- (pitch).

Noun

piekło n (diminutive piekiełko)

  1. (religion) hell (place of torment in the afterlife)
    Coordinate terms: niebo (heaven), raj (paradise)
  2. (Kielce) synonym of czworak (type of building)
Declension
Derived terms
adjective

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

piekło

  1. third-person singular neuter past of piec

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