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Polish
Etymology
From król + -ewiec. Calque of German Königsberg (literally “King's Hill”). Sense 2 is a semantic loan from Ukrainian Кролеве́ць (Krolevécʹ).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kruˈlɛ.vjɛt͡s/
- Rhymes: -ɛvjɛt͡s
- Syllabification: Kró‧le‧wiec
Proper noun
Królewiec m inan (related adjective królewiecki)
- Kaliningrad, Königsberg (a city, the administrative center of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia)
- Synonym: Kaliningrad
- Krolevets (a city in Sumy Oblast, Ukraine)
Usage notes
Since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Polish, Czech and Slovak internet users increasingly started referring to Kaliningrad as Królewiec/Královec, mostly jokingly - as part of the Královec Region meme. On May 9th, 2023, the Polish Commission for Standardization of Geographic Names recommended use of the historical Polish name "Królewiec" over Russian "Kaliningrad".[1]
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