pastwa

Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pastъva. By surface analysis, paść + -twa.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.stfa/

• (Greater Poland):
  • (Kuyavia) IPA^(key): [ˈpa.stfa]
  • (Northern Greater Poland) IPA^(key): [ˈpa.stfa]
  • (Eastern Greater Poland) IPA^(key): [ˈpa.stfa]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -astfa
• Syllabification: pa‧stwa

Noun

pastwa f

1. (obsolete) prey, food of a predator

   Synonym: żer

2. (obsolete) booty, loot, spoils
3. (Northern Greater Poland, Eastern Greater Poland, Kuyavia) synonym of pasza (“fodder”)

Declension

Declension of pastwa

	singular	plural
nominative	pastwa	pastwy
genitive	pastwy	pastw
dative	pastwie	pastwom
accusative	pastwę	pastwy
instrumental	pastwą	pastwami
locative	pastwie	pastwach
vocative	pastwo	pastwy

Derived terms

adjective

• pastewny

noun

• pastwisko

Further reading

• “pastwa”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[1] (in Polish)
• Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego/pastwa on the Polish Wikisource.Wikisource ^pl
• Oskar Kolberg (1867), “pastwa”, in Dzieła wszystkie: Kujawy (in Polish), page 274
• Oskar Kolberg (1877), “pastwa”, in “Rzecz o mowie ludu wielkopolskiego”, in Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowéj (in Polish), volume 1, III (Materyjały etnologiczne), page 35