szałwia
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Polish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin salvia, from salvus.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
szałwia f
Declension[edit]
Declension of szałwia
Note: etymologically, the declension should follow the pattern for Latinate nouns ending in -ia (see e.g. historia, entalpia), and thus contain geminated i in the genitive, dative, locative and genitive plural. However, the word is highly assimilated, and thus the native feminine declension with single i is also common. Current usage on the Internet seems to favor the geminated i form by around 3:1.
Descendants[edit]
- → Yiddish: שאַלוויִע (shalvie)
Further reading[edit]
- szałwia in Polish dictionaries at PWN