cekawi
Kashubian
Alternative forms
- czekawi
Etymology
Borrowed from Polish ciekawy. By surface analysis, cec + -awi.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t͡sɛˈka.vi/
- Rhymes: -avi
- Syllabification: ce‧ka‧wi
Adjective
cekawi (comparative cekawszi, superlative nôcekawszi, derived adverb cekawie)
- curious, interested (wanting to find out more)
- curious, interesting (evoking curiosity or interest in people)
Declension
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | virile | non-virile | |||
| animate | inanimate | ||||||
| nominative | cekawi | cekawô | cekawé | cekawi | cekawé | ||
| genitive | cekawégò | cekawi | cekawégò | cekawëch | |||
| dative | cekawémù | cekawi | cekawémù | cekawim | |||
| accusative | cekawégò | cekawi | cekawą | cekawé | cekawëch | cekawé | |
| instrumental | cekawim | cekawą | cekawim | cekawima | |||
| locative | cekawim | cekawi | cekawim | cekawëch | |||
Derived terms
nouns
- cekawòsc
verbs
- cekawic impf
Further reading
- Stefan Ramułt (1893), “cekawy”, in Słownik języka pomorskiego czyli kaszubskiego (in Kashubian), page 16
- Sychta, Bernard (1967), “cekavi”, in Słownik gwar kaszubskich [Dictionary of Kashubian dialects] (in Polish), volumes 1 (A – Ǵ), Wrocław: Ossolineum, page 121
- Jan Trepczyk (1994), “ciekawy”, in Słownik polsko-kaszubski (in Kashubian), volumes 1–2
- Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011), “ciekawy”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi[1]
- “cekawi/czekawi”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022