kijanka
Polish
editEtymology
editInherited from Old Polish kijanka, from kijania, kijań. By surface analysis, kij + -an + -ka.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editkijanka f
- tadpole, polliwog, porriwiggle (young toad or frog in its larval stage of development that lives in water, has a tail and no legs, and, like a fish, breathes through gills)
- batlet (tool sometimes used to beat flax but especially as a battledore to wash laundry)
- (Żywiec) Synonym of laska (“stick”)
Declension
editDeclension of kijanka
Descendants
edit- → Belarusian: кія́нка (kijánka)
- → Czech: kyjanka
- → Russian: кия́нка (kijánka)
- → Slovak: kyjanka, kijanka
- → Ukrainian: кия́нка (kyjánka)
Further reading
edit- kijanka in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- kijanka in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- kijanka in PWN's encyclopedia
- Sopoliga, Miroslav (1982) “Ofen und Herd im Volkswohnsitz der Ukrainer in der Ostslowakei”, in Acta Ethnographica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, volume 31, page 327 from 315 to 335
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1987), “*kyjanъka”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 13 (*kroměžirъ – *kyžiti), Moscow: Nauka, page 256
- Izydor Kopernicki (1875) “kijanka”, in Rozprawy i Sprawozdania z Posiedzeń Wydziału Filologicznego Akademii Umiejętności (I), volume 3, Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, page 371
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- Polish terms inherited from Old Polish
- Polish terms derived from Old Polish
- Polish terms suffixed with -an
- Polish terms suffixed with -ka
- Polish 3-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Polish/anka
- Rhymes:Polish/anka/3 syllables
- Polish terms with homophones
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- Polish nouns
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- Żywiec Polish
- pl:Baby animals
- pl:Frogs
- pl:Laundry
- pl:Toads
- pl:Tools