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Polish
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lъbъ.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɛp
- Syllabification: łeb
Noun
łeb m inan (diminutive łebek or łepek)
- animal head
- (colloquial or dialectal, Przemyśl) nut, head
- Synonyms: bania, baniak, baśka, głowa, główka, głowina, łepetyna, pała, (literary) skroń, makówka
- (Near Masovian, milling) head (part of the wind shaft through which the blades pass)
- (Przemyśl) head (part of a wagon wheel)
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Further reading
- łeb in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- łeb in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Władysław Matlakowski (1891) “łeb”, in “Zbiór wyrazów ludowych dawnej ziemi czerskiej”, in Sprawozdania Komisyi Językowej Akademii Umiejętności, volume 4, Krakow: Drukarnia Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, page 365
- Aleksander Saloni (1899) “łeb”, in “Lud wiejski w okolicy Przeworska”, in M. Arct, E. Lubowski, editors, Wisła : miesięcznik gieograficzno-etnograficzny (in Polish), volume 13, Warsaw: Artur Gruszecki, page 246)