kalenica

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Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish kalenica, from Proto-Slavic *kalenica. By surface analysis, kalić +‎ -nica.

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Pronunciation

 
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  • Rhymes: -it͡sa
  • Syllabification: ka‧le‧ni‧ca

Noun

kalenica f

  1. ridge of a roof
  2. (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