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Polish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “from earlier stage German Dütchen, Lower German dütge”)
Noun
dydek m inan
- (regional) money; coin, banknote (single unit of currency)
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pieniądze
- (obsolete) fine coin
- (Southern Greater Poland, Kuyavia) Synonym of pierś (“women's breast”)
- (Southern Greater Poland) cow's nipple
- (Far Masovian) unit of money worth six grosze
- Śtyry dydki rozdałem dziś dziadom. ― I gave away four six-groszes today to beggers.
Declension
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
dydek n
- genitive plural of dydko
Further reading
- dydek in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Oskar Kolberg (1867) “dydek”, in Dzieła wszystkie: Kujawy (in Polish), page 270
- Wojciech Grzegorzewicz (1894) “dydek”, in Sprawozdania Komisji Językowej Akademii Umiejętności (in Polish), volume 5, Krakow: Akademia Umiejętności, page 106
- Oskar Kolberg (1877) “dydek”, in “Rzecz o mowie ludu wielkopolskiego”, in Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowéj (in Polish), volume 1, III (Materyjały etnologiczne), page 29