chòwac

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *xovati.

• IPA^(key): /ˈxwɛ.vat͡s/
• Rhymes: -ɛvat͡s
• Syllabification: chò‧wac

chòwac impf

1. (transitive) to hide, to stash, to tuck, to put away; to bury (to put something in an non-visible or safe place)
2. (transitive) to hide, to stash, to conceal; to keep; to bury (to keep something out of sight or safe)
3. (transitive) to keep; to stash (to not to use something so that it may be used in the future)
4. (transitive) to raise, to rear, to bring up (to providing care to a minor person or animal and instilling certain values, leading them to independence)
5. (transitive) to bury (to place the body or ashes of a deceased person or animal in a grave)
6. (transitive) to rear, to keep (to breed or take care of some animals)
7. (transitive) to wet nurse (to breastfeed someone else's child; to be a wet nurse)
8. (reflexive with sã) to hide (to move out of sight or to somewhere safe)
9. (reflexive with sã) to hide (to cease to be visible)
10. (reflexive with sã) to grow up (to be raised by someone in some place or under some circumstances)
11. (reflexive with sã) to hide (to hide to avoid some obligation)

• Stefan Ramułt (1993) [1893], “chòwac”, in Jerzy Trepczyk, editor, Słownik języka pomorskiego czyli kaszubskiego (in Kashubian), 3 edition
• Sychta, Bernard (1968), “xovac, xovac są”, in Słownik gwar kaszubskich [Dictionary of Kashubian dialects] (in Polish), volumes 2 (H – L), Wrocław: Ossolineum, page 51
• Jan Trepczyk (1994), “chować”, in Słownik polsko-kaszubski (in Kashubian), volumes 1–2
• Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011), “chować (się)”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎^[1]
• “chòwac”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022
• “chòwac sã”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022