łytka
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Old Polish
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lytъka.
Pronunciation
Noun
łytka f
- (anatomy) calf (back of the leg below the knee)
- Synonym: łyst
- 1930 [c. 1455], “Deut”, in Ludwik Bernacki, editor, Biblia królowej Zofii (Biblia szaroszpatacka), 28, 35:
- Rani czø pan wrzodem psotnim na kolanoch y lytkach (in genibus et in suris)
- [Rani cię pan wrzodem psotnim na kolanoch y łytkach (in genibus et in suris)]
Descendants
- Polish: łydka
References
- Brückner, Aleksander (1927) “łyda”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna
- 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), “łytka”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN
Further reading
M. Arcta Słownik Staropolski/Łyt on the Polish Wikisource.Wikisource pl
