Noun: namięta
Hyphenation:
Gender: Feminine
Plural
Sample Sentences
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wſzakoż w cżłowiece vſpokoionim od takiey namięty nie mały bywa znak nacżele dobroci albo złoſci (After all in a person calmed down from such an attack the sign of goodness or badness on his forehead oft is not small.) [1535, Andrzej Glaber from Kobylin, Gadki z pisma wielkiego filozofa Arystotela, Krakow, page N3v:]
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cżłowieka cżyni pokornego iákoby báranek
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zwłaſzcżá gdy go nákłádźie w pośćiel
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tedy broni ćiáłu namięty (It makes a person humble as a lamb
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especially when it will place him under a sheet
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then it defends from the body of intense emotion.) [1571, Pietro de' Crescenzi, Księgi o gospodarstwie, volume 2: O pomnożeniu i rozkrzewieniu wszelakich pożytków ksiąg dwojenaście, Krakow: Helena Ungler, page 474:]
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₂en-der.
3. Proto-Balto-Slavic *nō
4. Proto-Slavic *na
5. Proto-Slavic *na-
6. Old Polish na-
7. Proto-Slavic *gnětiti
8. Old Polish namiecićdeverb.
9. Polish namięta
10. Deverbal from Old Polish namiecić, a dialectal form of naniecić (most likely a border dialect between Masovian and Greater Polish), with secondary nasalization, instead of the expected form *nanieta (compare podnieta). First attested in 1535.
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