piesek

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pěsъkъ.

• IPA^(key): (13^th CE) /ˈpi̯ɛːsɛk/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ˈpiːsɛk/

piesek m inan

1. sand (finely ground rock)

• Czech: písek

• Jan Gebauer (1903–1916), “piesek”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění

Inherited from Old Polish psek. By surface analysis, pies +‎ -ek.

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• Rhymes: -ɛsɛk
• Syllabification: pie‧sek

piesek m animal (diminutive pieseczek)

1. diminutive of pies
2. dog paddle, doggy paddle (swimming style)

piesek m inan

1. (Eastern Lublin, Wysokie) holder (wooden movable peg, passing vertically through a hole in the board in a planing and woodworking machine, together with a footrest nailed to its lower part, serves to hold the boards/material during processing)
2. (Near Masovian, Jagodne) holderpeg (peg for stopping the movement of a bobbin in a weaving workshop with the canvas)
3. (Western Kraków, carpentry) support (block that supports a buttress)
4. (Podhale) homemade stool (small stool with three self-made legs, i.e. unfinished, but with a board for sitting, constituting one piece of wood, used in a hut under a shoebox)

   Synonym: psik

5. (Podhale) lily (embroidery with colored wool on Goral clothing in the shape of a spoiled Bourbon lily)

• piesek in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• piesek in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Jan Karłowicz (1906), “pies”, in Jan Łoś, editors, Słownik gwar polskich [Dictionary of Polish dialects] (in Polish), volume 4: P, Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, page 96