# osypać
## Old Polish
### Etymology

From o- +‎ sypać. First attested in 1460. Compare Old Czech osypati.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (10th–15th CE) /ɔsɨpat͡ɕ/
* IPA: (15th CE) /ɔsɨpat͡ɕ/

### Verb

osypać pf
* to shower, to sprinkle (to cover some surface with a loose substance)
** 1901 [1471], Materiały i Prace Komisji Językowej Akademii Umiejętności w Krakowie, volume V, page 72:Stipate osypcze, obtykayczie (fulcite me floribus, stipate me malis, quia amore langueo Cant 2, 5)[Stipate osypcie, obtykajcie (fulcite me floribus, stipate me malis, quia amore langueo Cant 2, 5)]
* to separate by building mounds or dikes, etc.
** 1868 [1460], Akta grodzkie i ziemskie z czasów Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej : z archiwum tak zwanego bernardyńskiego we Lwowie w skutek fundacyi śp. Alexandra hr. Stadnickiego‎, volume XI, page 452:Hendricus seipsum inscripsit antefatas villas limitibus expartire al. ogranyczycz et scopulis scopire al. coppczy ossypacz ab aliis suis villis[Hendricus seipsum inscripsit antefatas villas limitibus expartire al. ograniczyć et scopulis scopire al. kopcy osypać ab aliis suis villis]

#### Descendants

* Polish: osypać

### References

* B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “osypać”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

## Polish
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish osypać. By surface analysis, o- +‎ sypać. Compare Czech osypat or Russian осы́пать (osýpatʹ).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɔˈsɘ.pat͡ɕ/
* (Middle Polish) IPA: /ɔˈsɨ.pat͡ɕ/
* Rhymes: -ɘpat͡ɕ
* Syllabification: o‧sy‧pać

### Verb

osypać pf (imperfective osypywać)
* (transitive, literary) to shower, to sprinkle (to cover some surface with a loose substance) [with instrumental ‘with what’]
    Synonym: obsypać
* (transitive, literary) to cover (to appear in large quanities)
    Synonym: obsypać
* (transitive, literary, often of plants) to shed; to lose; to drop (to lose certain parts due to them falling off from the whole)
    Synonym: obsypać
* (transitive, literary) to shower (to cause a very large amount of something to go to someone or some place) [with instrumental ‘with what’]
    Synonym: obsypać
* (transitive, botany, horticulture) to loosen the soil around a plant and cover it with this soil to protect it (Is there an English equivalent to this definition?) [with instrumental ‘with what’]
    Synonyms: obkopać, obsypać, okopać
* (reflexive with się) to be sprinkled, to be showered
* (reflexive with się) to be shed (having broken away from something, to fall in large numbers to some ground)
    Synonym: obsypać się
* (reflexive with się) to deform (to lose one's original shape due to fragments sliding or falling off)
* (reflexive with się, colloquial, of trees) to shed (to quickly lose all leaves or needles) [with z (+ genitive) ‘what leaves/needles’]
* (reflexive with się) to shower each other, to sprinkle one another [with instrumental ‘with what’]
    Synonym: obsypać się
* (reflexive with się, of bees) to die en masse

#### Conjugation
### Verb

osypać pf
* (impersonal, transitive, of a rash, colloquial) to break out (to appear)
    Synonyms: obsypać, wysypać

#### Conjugation
### Further reading

* osypać in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* osypać in Polish dictionaries at PWN
* Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “osypać”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku
* Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “osypać się”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku
* Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “osypać”, in Słownik języka polskiego
* Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “osypać”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
* J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1904), “osypać”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 3, Warsaw, page 879