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Polish
Etymology
From święty + -o- + Jan + -ka, named after John the Evangelist. Calque of German Johannisbeere.
Pronunciation
Noun
świętojanka f
- (Central Greater Poland, Poznań) Synonym of porzeczka
Further reading
- Oskar Kolberg (1877) “świętojanhi”, in “Rzecz o mowie ludu wielkopolskiego”, in Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowéj (in Polish), volume 1, III (Materyjały etnologiczne), page 24
- Waldemar Wierzba (2013) “świętojanki”, in Słownik Poznańskie słowa i ausdrucki (in Polish), 1st edition, Mierzyn: Albus, →ISBN, page 268