bortnica

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Polish

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Noun

bortnica f

  1. (Central Greater Poland) side (wall of a ditch or trench)
  2. (Near Masovian, milling) narrow, light wooden strip on a windmill's shaft

Further reading

  • Władysław Matlakowski (1891) “bortnica”, in “Zbiór wyrazów ludowych dawnej ziemi czerskiej”, in Sprawozdania Komisyi Językowej Akademii Umiejętności, volume 4, Krakow: Drukarnia Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, page 363
  • Oskar Kolberg (1877) “bortnica”, in “Rzecz o mowie ludu wielkopolskiego”, in Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowéj (in Polish), volume 1, III (Materyjały etnologiczne), page 17