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Old English
Pronunciation
Verb
ċȳġan (Late West Saxon)
- Alternative form of ċīeġan
Conjugation
Polish
Etymology
From Cygan.
Pronunciation
Noun
cygan m pers (female equivalent cyganka)
- (colloquial) wanderer, vagrant, traveller
- Synonyms: włóczęga, wędrowiec, włóczykij, tramp
- (colloquial or dialectal, Far Masovian) trickster, shyster, liar
- Synonyms: matacz, oszust, krętacz
- (colloquial) person with a swarthy complexion and dark hair
- Synonym: murzyn
Declension
Further reading
- cygan in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- cygan in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Wojciech Grzegorzewicz (1894) “cygan”, in Sprawozdania Komisji Językowej Akademii Umiejętności (in Polish), volume 5, Krakow: Akademia Umiejętności, page 105