kwilić
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Polish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Slavic *kviliti.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]kwilić impf (perfective pokwilić or zakwilić)
- (intransitive) to wail
- Synonyms: lamentować, zawodzić
- (intransitive) to whimper
- (intransitive, of a bird) to sing quietly
- Synonym: ćwierkać
- 1840, Kazimiérz Władysław Wójcicki, Stare gawędy i obrazy[1], volume 1, Warszawa: Maxymilijan Chmielewski, archived from the original on 2022-08-29, pages 206–207:
- Słonko zwolna poczęło wschodzić, i złocić zboża, i trawe zielone, szary skowronek wzbijał się nad miedzę ze śpiéwem, słowik kwilił w gąszczach rzewliwie, kukułka kukała, po łąkach klekce bocian, stada żórawi ciągnęły ze śpiewem:...
- The sun slowly started to rise and turn the grains and the green grasses gold; a gray lark flew up over the border between fields with a song; a nightingale sang softly and mournfully in thickets; a cuckoo cuckooed; a stork clacked its beak in the uncultivated fields; flocks of cranes continued their song:...
Conjugation
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- kwilić in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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