frygać

== Polish == === Alternative forms === fyrgać (Near Masovian) === Etymology === Uncertain. Ultimately onomatopoeic. From fryga +‎ -ać, with a semantic shift of to set a dreidel into motion to to fling (quickly), and finally to eat quickly. Ultimately from fr (“about a sound when taking off to flight”), with fryga being derived from frygać. Compare frunąć, fyrkać, Czech frgať. For meaning shift for sense 2.1 compare wsuwać, zmiatać, zwijać. === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -ɘɡat͡ɕ Syllabification: fry‧gać === Verb === frygać impf (perfective frygnąć) (transitive, colloquial or dialectal, Kielce, Słupia) to fling, to hurl, to throw [with instrumental ‘what’] Synonyms: ciskać, miotać, (dialectal) pyrgać, rzucać (intransitive, colloquial) to run, to run into [with do (+ genitive) ‘what’] Synonyms: biec, wbiegać → (ambitransitive, regional) to eat, to ingest (to consume a meal) Synonyms: see Thesaurus:jeść ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === References === === Further reading === frygać in Polish dictionaries at PWN Hieronim Łopaciński (1892), “frygać”, in “Przyczynki do nowego słownika języka polskiego (słownik wyrazów ludowych z Lubelskiego i innych okolic Królestwa Polskiego)”, in Prace Filologiczne (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw: skł. gł. w Księgarni E. Wende i Ska, page 195