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Polish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Polish kalenica, from Proto-Slavic *kalenica. By surface analysis, kalić + -nica.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -it͡sa
- Syllabification: ka‧le‧ni‧ca
Noun
kalenica f
- ridge of a roof
- (Przemyśl) straw bale on top of a thatched roof
Declension
Further reading
- kalenica in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- kalenica in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Władysław Matlakowski (1892) “kalenica”, in Słownik wyrazów ludowych zebranych w Czerskiem i na Kujawach (in Polish), Kraków: nakł. Akademii Umiejętności; Drukarnia Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego pod zarządem A. M. Kosterkiewicza, page 7
- Aleksander Saloni (1908) “kalenica”, in “Lud rzeszowski”, in Materyały Antropologiczno-Archeologiczne i Etnograficzne (in Polish), volume 10, Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, page 335