chrachać

== Old Polish == === Etymology === Inherited from Proto-Slavic *xъrkati. However, the expected form is *charchać, suggesting this is a dialectal form. First attested in c. 1500. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /xraxat͡ɕʲ/ IPA(key): (15th CE) /xraxat͡ɕʲ/ === Verb === chrachać impf (attested in Greater Poland, hapax legomenon) to spit (to expel phlegm loudly from the throat) ==== Descendants ==== Polish: charchać, chrachać (Far Masovian) === References === Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000), “chrachać”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish) K. Nitsch, editor (1954), “chrachać”, in Słownik staropolski (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw: Polish Academy of Sciences, page 252 Bożena Sieradzka-Baziur, et al., editors (2011–2015), “chrachać”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN Ewa Deptuchowa, et al., editors (2023), “chrachać”, in Rozariusze z polskimi glosami. Internetowa baza danych [Dictionaries of Polish glosses, an Internet database] (in Polish), Kraków: Pracownia Języka Staropolskiego Instytut Języka Polskiego Polskiej Akademii Nauk == Polish == === Pronunciation === (Masovia): (Far Masovian) IPA(key): [ˈxra.xat͡ɕ] === Verb === chrachać impf (intransitive, Far Masovian) alternative form of charchać Nie chrachaj na ziemnie. ― Don't spit on the ground. === Further reading === Wojciech Grzegorzewicz (1894), “chrachać”, in “O języku ludowym w powiecie przasnyskim”, in Sprawozdania Komisji Językowej Akademii Umiejętności (in Polish), volume 5, Krakow: Akademia Umiejętności, page 105