stary

From stare + -y.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈstɛə.ɹi/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US, without the Mary–marry–merry merger) IPA^(key): /ˈstɛɚ.i/
• (US, Canada, Mary–marry–merry merger) IPA^(key): /ˈstɛɹ.i/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈsteː.ɹi/
• (New Zealand, without the cheer–chair merger) IPA^(key): /ˈsteəɹi/
• (New Zealand, cheer–chair merger) IPA^(key): /ˈstiəɹi/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˈsteɹɪ/, /ˈsteɹe/
• (Lancashire, fair–fur merger) IPA^(key): /ˈstɜːɹɪ/
• Rhymes: -ɛəɹi
• Homophone: starey

stary (comparative starier, superlative stariest)

1. Alternative spelling of starey.
   • 1980, Stephen King, The Mist, Viking Press:

     Buddy Eagleton was ahead of Reppler and he turned to run, his eyes wide and stary.

• T-rays, artsy, satyr, stray, trays, yrast

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *starъ.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsta.rɨ/
• Rhymes: -arɨ
• Syllabification: sta‧ry

stary (comparative staršy, superlative nejstaršy)

1. old

   Antonyms: młody, nowy

   • 1998, Erwin Hannusch, chapter 1, in Niedersorbisch praktisch und verständlich, Bautzen: Domowina Verlag, →ISBN, page 20:

     Tšochu dalej su Stare wiki.

     Somewhat further on is the Old Market.

• starjejšej (“parents”)

• Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928), “stary”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
• Starosta, Manfred (1999), “stary”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *stàrъ. First attested in the 14th century.

• IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /stariː/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /stari/

stary (comparative starszy or starzejszy, superlative nastarszy)

1. old (having existed in the past)
2. old (having existed for a long time)
3. old (that is no longer valid)
4. old (of a living being, having lived for most of the expected years)
5. (of a family member, particularly a sibling) older (having been born before another)

stary m animacy unattested

1. (nominalized) old person
2. (nominalized, in the plural) parents
3. (nominalized) high rank or position
4. (nominalized) elected head of a rural subdivision

• Polish: stary, story (Southern Greater Poland)
• Silesian: stary

• Boryś, Wiesław (2005), “stary”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
• 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), “stary”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

• story (Southern Greater Poland)

Inherited from Old Polish stary.

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• Rhymes: -arɘ
• Syllabification: sta‧ry
• Homophone: Stary

stary (comparative starszy, superlative najstarszy, derived adverb staro)

1. old (of a living being, having lived for most of the expected years)

   Synonyms: leciwy, posunięty w latach, sędziwy, starszy, wcześnie urodzony, wiekowy, zaawansowany wiekiem

   Antonym: młody

2. old (characteristic of such a being)

   Synonym: starczy

   Antonym: młody

3. old (having a lot of experience)

   Synonym: doświadczony

4. old (having existed for a long time)

   Synonym: nienowy

   Antonym: nowy

5. old (destroyed or worn-out)

   Synonym: nienowy

   Antonym: nowy

6. old (that is no longer valid)

   Synonym: dawny

   Antonym: nowy

7. old (having existed for a while but not outdated)

   Synonym: dawny

8. old (familiar, having been known to the speaker for a long time)

   Synonym: dawny

9. old (not fresh)

   Synonym: nieświeży

stary m pers (female equivalent stara)

1. (nominalized, colloquial, expressive or dialectal, Far Masovian) old man (father)
2. (nominalized, colloquial, expressive or dialectal, Southern Greater Poland, literally) old man
3. (nominalized, colloquial, expressive or dialectal, Far Masovian) old man (husband)
4. (nominalized, colloquial, expressive) friend, dude
5. (in the plural, nominalized, colloquial) 'rents (one's father and mother)

   Synonyms: rodzice, rodziciele, staruszkowie

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), stary is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 44 times in scientific texts, 21 times in news, 39 times in essays, 104 times in fiction, and 76 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 284 times, making it the 180th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.^[1]

• “stary”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[2] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “stary”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[3] (in Polish)
• Maria Renata Mayenowa; Stanisław Rospond; Witold Taszycki; Stefan Hrabec; Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023), “stary”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
• “STARY”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 8 January 2010
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814), “stary”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “stary”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1915), “stary”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 6, Warsaw, page 401
• stary in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego
• Wojciech Grzegorzewicz (1894), “stary”, in “O języku ludowym w powiecie przasnyskim”, in Sprawozdania Komisji Językowej Akademii Umiejętności (in Polish), volume 5, Krakow: Akademia Umiejętności, page 122
• Oskar Kolberg (1877), “stary”, in “Rzecz o mowie ludu wielkopolskiego”, in Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowéj (in Polish), volume 1, III (Materyjały etnologiczne), page 31

Inherited from Old Polish stary.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsta.rɪ/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -arɪ
• Syllabification: sta‧ry

stary (comparative starszy, superlative nojstarszy, derived adverb staro)

1. old (of someone or something that has existed for a relatively long time)

   Synonyms: niymody, syńdziwy

   Antonym: mody

2. old (not new)

   Antonym: nowy

3. old (of a living being, having lived for most of the expected years)
4. old (that is no longer valid)

   Synonym: były

   Antonym: nowy

5. old (known to the speaker for a long time)
6. old (having a lot of experience)

   Antonym: świyży

7. old (not fresh)

   Antonym: mody

• stary in dykcjonorz.eu
• stary in silling.org

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *stàrъ. Cognate with Lower Sorbian nowy.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsta.ʀɨ/
• Rhymes: -aʀɨ
• Syllabification: sta‧ry

stary (comparative starši, superlative najstarši, absolute superlative nanajstarši, excessive přestary, derived adverb starje)

1. old

   Antonym: nowy

   • 1896, Nowy Zakoń: Do hornjoserbsćiny po rjedźe Vulgaty prelozistaj Jurij Luscanski a Michal Hórnik‎^[4], Z nakladom towaŕstwa ss. Cyrilla a Methocija, page 56:

     Nichtó njepřišiwa zapłatu z noweho sukna na staru drastu, hewak wottorhnje nowa zapłata wot stareho, a dźěra bywa wjetša.

     Nobody sews a patch of new fabric onto old clothes, otherwise the new patch will tear away from the old one, and the hole will get bigger.

• “stary”, in Mudra corpus [Upper Sorbian–Czech dictionary] (in Czech), 2024–2026
• “stary” in Soblex