pocisk

Polish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep

Proto-Indo-European *-o

Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó

Proto-Indo-European *h₂pó

Proto-Balto-Slavic *pa

Proto-Slavic *po

Proto-Slavic *po-

Old Polish po-

Polish po-

Proto-Slavic *tìskati

Polish ciskać

Polish pociskaćdeverb.

Polish pocisk

Deverbal from pociskać. First attested in 1533.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔ.t͡ɕisk/

• (Middle Polish) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔ.t͡ɕisk/

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• Rhymes: -ɔt͡ɕisk
• Syllabification: po‧cisk

Noun

pocisk m inan

1. (firearms) bullet, gunshot (streamlined body thrown from a firearm or launcher, intended to hit a target from a distance)
2. (sometimes colloquial) missile, projectile (any object used as a weapon by being thrown or fired through the air, such as stone, arrow, or bullet)
3. (slang) repartee (act of taunting, making fun of someone)
4. (obsolete) throw, toss (act of throwing)

   Synonym: rzut

Declension

Declension of pocisk

	singular	plural
nominative	pocisk	pociski
genitive	pocisku	pocisków
dative	pociskowi	pociskom
accusative	pocisk	pociski
instrumental	pociskiem	pociskami
locative	pocisku	pociskach
vocative	pocisku	pociski

Derived terms

nouns

• pocisk balistyczny

Further reading

• “pocisk”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[2] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “pocisk”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[3] (in Polish)
• Paweł Kupiszewski (20.09.2018), “POCISK”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814), “pocisk”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “pocisk”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1908), “pocisk”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw, page 316