gacek

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Polish

Etymology

Back-formation from gacki (pair of leather thongs on a flail), diminutive of regional gace (trousers), from Old Polish gace, from Proto-Slavic *gaťę.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡa.t͡sɛk/
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  • Rhymes: -at͡sɛk
  • Syllabification: ga‧cek

Noun

gacek m animal (augmentative gac)

  1. any bat of the genus Plecotus; a long-eared bat

Declension

noun

Noun

gacek m pers

  1. someone with large, protruding ears

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Noun

gacek m inan

  1. (regional) the thong of a flail

Declension

Further reading

  • gacek in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • gacek in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • gacek (nietoperze) on the Polish Wikipedia.Wikipedia pl
  • Brückner, Aleksander (1927) “gać”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego, Krakowska Spółka Wydawnicza