żreć
Polish
verb
Definitions
- (colloquial) to gorge, to stuff oneself, to eat greedily, to devour, to gobble
- to eat (of animals)
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *žerti inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic *gerˀtei (devour, lap up) inherited from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerh₃- (devour, swallow, eat, shallow).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*gʷerh₃-
Gloss
devour, swallow, eat, shallow
Concept
Semantic Field
Food and drink
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
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Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- carnivorous English
- devour English
- voracious English
- vorago English
- -vorus Latin
- calcivorus Latin
- carnivorus Latin
- devoro Latin
- dēvorāre Latin
- folium Latin
- gurges Latin
- gurgulio Latin
- voracitas Latin
- vorago Latin
- vorare Latin
- vorator Latin
- voratrina Latin
- voratrix Latin
- vorax Latin
- voro Latin
- vorācitātem Latin
- vorāginōsus Latin
- vorāgō Latin
- vorāre Latin
- vorātrīcem Latin
- vorātōrem Latin
- vorō Latin
- vora Italian
- voragine Italian
- carnivore French
- βάραθρον Ancient Greek
- βιβρώσκω Ancient Greek
- βορά Ancient Greek
- βρῶμα Ancient Greek
- βρῶσις Ancient Greek
- δημοβόρος Ancient Greek
- ἐλαφόβοσκον Ancient Greek
- ἑλλέβορος Ancient Greek
- *gʷerh₃- Proto-Indo-European
- *gʷr̥h₃-tlom Proto-Indo-European
- *h₁ōd- Proto-Indo-European
- *kwerkō Proto-Germanic
- *kwerraną Proto-Germanic
- żarłacz Polish
- żerca Polish
- acweorran Old English
- गिरति Sanskrit
- *gora Proto-Slavic
- *goraľь Proto-Slavic
- *gъrdlo Proto-Slavic
- *žerdlo Proto-Slavic
- *žerti Proto-Slavic
- *žьrati Proto-Slavic
- gerlo, *žьrdlo Proto-Slavic
- dzert Latvian
- dzeršana Latvian
- dzēriens Latvian
- dzērāja Latvian
- dzērājs Latvian
- iedzert Latvian
- hangër Albanian
- garganta Old Portuguese
- ждере Macedonian
- žreti Slovene
- жрѣти Church Slavic, Church Slavonic, Old Church Slavonic, Old Slavonic, Old Bulgarian
- gerti Lithuanian
- girdyti Lithuanian
- girtas Lithuanian
- girtuoklis Lithuanian
- išgerti Lithuanian
- nusigerti Lithuanian
- *gr̥Háti Proto-Indo-Aryan
- *engranti Proto-Albanian
- *grinja Proto-Albanian
- *gur- Proto-Albanian
- *gerˀtei Proto-Balto-Slavic