łoktusza

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See also: łoktuszą

Old Polish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Czech loktušě, from Middle High German lachen tuoch. First attested in 1437.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /ɫɔktuʃʲa/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /ɫɔktuʃʲa/

Noun

łoktusza f (diminutive łoktuszka)

  1. (attested in Masovia, Greater Poland) piece of cloth used for various purposes, e.g. as a loincloth, a scarf, a rag
    • 1877-1881 [1437], Władysław Wisłocki, editor, Katalog rękopisów Biblioteki Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, number 228, page 89:
      Loktusa fascia
      [Łoktusza fascia]
    • 1901 [1463-1465], Jan Rozwadowski, editor, De morte prologus [Rozmowa mistrza Polikarpa ze śmiercią], Mierzeniec, Płock, line 28:
      Policarpusz... wsrzal czlovyeka nagyego, przyrodzenya nyevyeszczyego, obraszą vyelmy skaradego, lokthvszą przepaszanego
      [Polikarpus... uźrzał człowieka nagiego, przyrodzenia niewieściego, obraza wielmi skaradego, łoktuszą przepasanego]
    • c. 1500, Wokabularz lubiński, Lubiń: inkunabuł Archiwum Archidiecezjalnego w Gnieźnie, sygn. Inc. 78d., page 102v:
      *Podis pląchtą vel lochtvzą secundum alios nebridą plachtą
      [*Podis pląchta vel lochtusza secundum alios nebridą plachta]
    • 1876-1929 [c. 1500], Vatroslav Jagić, editor, Archiv für slavische Philologie, volume X, Trzemeszno, page 381:
      W lokthuszy sindone
      [W łoktuszy sindone]

Descendants

References

Polish

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łoktusza

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish łoktusza.

Pronunciation

 
  • Rhymes: -uʂa
  • Syllabification: łok‧tu‧sza

Noun

łoktusza f (diminutive łoktuszka)

  1. (ethnography) large shawl worn over the back worn by peasant women in some regions of Poland
    Hypernym: chustka
  2. (archaic) sheet of thick linen
    Hypernym: płachta

Declension

Further reading

Silesian

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish łoktusza.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /wɔkˈtu.ʂa/
  • Rhymes: -uʂa
  • Syllabification: łok‧tu‧sza

Noun

łoktusza f (diminutive łoktuszka)

  1. sheet, especially of rough linen
  2. (archaic) scarf as an element of clothing

Further reading

  • Eugeniusz Kosmała (2023) “chusta”, in Dykcjōnôrz Polsko-Ślonskiy (in Silesian), section C, page 34
  • Eugeniusz Kosmała (2023) “prześcieradło”, in Dykcjōnôrz Polsko-Ślonskiy (in Silesian), p, page 328
  • Barbara Podgórska, Adam Podgóski (2008) “łoktusza”, in Słownik gwar śląskich [A dictionary of Silesian lects], Katowice: Wydawnictwo KOS, →ISBN, page 164