blekot

Czech

blekot m inan

Declension of blekot (hard masculine inanimate)

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Inherited from Old Polish blekot, blegot, from Proto-Slavic *blekotъ. The semantic shift from stutterer to fool's parsley is because of the plants ability to disrupt speech.^[1]

blekot m inan

fool's parsley (Aethusa cynapium) [since the beginning of the 17th century]
Synonyms: szaleń, psia pietruszka
- 1993, Ewa Nowacka, Emilia z kwiatem lilii leśnej, Siedmioróg:
  Taki człowiek przez dni wiele jak po blekocie chodził i od rzeczy gadał sam do siebie.
  Such a persoh would walk and talk to himself for many days like he had eaten fool's a parsley.
(Middle Polish) stutterer [16th–mid 17th century]^[2]^[3]
Synonym: jąkała

Declension of blekot

noun

verb

^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “blekot”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “blegot”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
^ Dorota Adamiec (07.03.2019) “BLEKOT”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]