podmowny
Definitions
- 1.obsoletetricky; deceitful (of an action; tricking someone into doing something)
List Nalewajka hetmana kozackiego do króla Zygmunta III ze skargą na panów litewskich, gdzie wyznaje że on z Kozakami na odezwy podmowne cesarza niemieckiego, w państwie tureckiém wiele wsi około Białogrodu popalił.
Letter of the Cossack Hetman Nalewajk to King Zygmunt III with a tricky complaint against the Lithuanian lords, where he confesses that he and the Cossacks had set fire to many villages around Białogrod in the Turkish state.
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Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Slavic *podъ- Old Polish pod- Polish pod- Proto-Indo-European *mlewH-der. Proto-Slavic *mъ̀lva Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Slavic *-iti Proto-Slavic *mъlviti Old Polish mówić Polish mówić Polish podmówić Polish podmowa Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Slavic *-ьnъ Old Polish -ny Polish -ny Polish podmowny From podmowa + -ny. First attested in 1743–1745.