szermować

== Polish == === Etymology === Borrowed from Czech šermovat, from Middle High German schërmen (“to fence, to screen, to protect”), from Old High German skirmen, from Proto-West Germanic *skirmijan, from *skirmi (“covering, screen, shelter”), from Proto-Germanic *skirmiz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut off”). By surface analysis, szerm +‎ -ować. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ʂɛrˈmɔ.vat͡ɕ/ Rhymes: -ɔvat͡ɕ Syllabification: szer‧mo‧wać === Verb === szermować impf (intransitive, archaic, fencing) to fence (to engage in the sport of fencing) Synonym: fechtować (intransitive, figurative) to employ as a weapon in public debate, overusing it [with instrumental] ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Related terms ==== === Further reading === “szermować”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[1] (in Polish)