Polak
English
editNoun
editPolak (plural Polaks)
- Alternative spelling of Polack
Dutch
editEtymology
editUltimately from Polish Polak. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editPolak
- a surname
French
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editPolak m (plural Polaks)
Polish
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Slavic *pȍľe (“field”) + -ak.[1][2][3]
Pronunciation
editNoun
editPolak m pers (female equivalent Polka)
Declension
editDeclension of Polak
Related terms
editadjective
adverb
noun
Descendants
edit- → English: Polack
- → Danish: polak
- → Finnish: polakki
- → French: polaque
- → Italian: polacco
- → Norwegian: polakk
- → Portuguese: polaco
- → Spanish: polaco
- → Swedish: polack
Proper noun
editPolak m pers
- a male surname
Declension
editDeclension of Polak
Proper noun
editPolak f (indeclinable)
- a female surname
Derived terms
editSee also
editTrivia
editAccording to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), Polak is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 13 times in scientific texts, 23 times in news, 17 times in essays, 21 times in fiction, and 15 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 89 times, making it the 714th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[4]
References
edit- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “Pole”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
- ^ Kraitsir, C. V. (1837). The Poles in the United States of America: Preceded by the Earliest History of the Slavonians, and by the History of Poland. United States: Kiderlen and Stollmeyer, p. 64
- ^ Kalman, B., Virágos, Z., Kálmán, B. (1978). The world of names : a study in Hungarian onomatology. Hungary: Akadémiai Kiadó, p. 107
- ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “Polak”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 395
Further reading
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- French nouns
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- French terms spelled with K
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- Polish terms suffixed with -ak
- Polish 2-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Polish/ɔlak
- Rhymes:Polish/ɔlak/2 syllables
- Polish terms with homophones
- Polish lemmas
- Polish nouns
- Polish masculine nouns
- Polish personal nouns
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