macierz

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *màti.

• IPA^(key):

• (Pre 15^th CE) /mat͡ɕɛ(ː)r̝/
• (15^th CE) /mat͡ɕɛr̝/, /mat͡ɕer̝/

macierz f

1. mother

   Synonyms: macica, maciora, mać

• Polish: macierz
• Silesian: macierz

Inherited from Old Polish macierz (“mother”). Doublet of mać (“mother”), maciora (“female pig”), and mutra (“nut for a bolt”). mać comes from leveling to the nominative stem, macierz and maciora from leveling to the two oblique stems, and mutra was borrowed from German.

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.t͡ɕɛʂ/

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• Rhymes: -at͡ɕɛʂ
• Syllabification: ma‧cierz

macierz f

1. matrix (notion in mathematics)
2. matrix (part of the mitochondrion)
3. (dated or literary) motherland, country of origin

• macierz in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• macierz in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Inherited from Old Polish macierz.

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.t͡ɕɛʂ/
• Syllabification: ma‧cierz

macierz f

1. (Cieszyn Silesia) mother

• Jadwiga Wronicz, editor (2010) Słownik gwarowy Śląska Cieszyńskiego, Ustroń: Galeria „Na Gojach”, →ISBN