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Polish
Etymology
From Latin andrōn (“junction”), possibly under influence of Italian androne (“hallway”) with semantic shifts of public place > place where people meet to share rumors > rumors > nonsense. First attested in 1698.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /anˈdrɔ.nɨ/
- Rhymes: -ɔnɨ
- Syllabification: an‧dro‧ny
Noun
androny nvir pl
- (literary) nonsense, poppycock
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:nonsens
- pleść androny ― to spew nonsense
Declension
References
- ^ Adam Fałowski (2022) Słownik etymologiczny polszczyzny potocznej, Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, →ISBN
- ^ Włodzimierz Gruszczyński (05.11.2020) “ANDRONY”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
Further reading
- androny in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- androny in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “androny”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “androny”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “androny”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 35
- Brückner, Aleksander (1927) “androny”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna