kijanka

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See also: Kijanka, kijanką, and Kijanką

Polish

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kijanka sense 1
kijanka sense 2

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish kijanka, from kijania, kijań. By surface analysis, kij +‎ -an +‎ -ka.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kiˈjan.ka/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -anka
  • Syllabification: ki‧jan‧ka
  • Homophone: Kijanka

Noun

kijanka f

  2. tadpole, polliwog, porriwiggle (young toad or frog in its larval stage of development that lives in water, has a tail and no legs, and, like a fish, breathes through gills)
  4. batlet (tool sometimes used to beat flax but especially as a battledore to wash laundry)

Declension

Declension of kijanka
singular plural
nominative kijanka kijanki
genitive kijanki kijanek
dative kijance kijankom
accusative kijankę kijanki
instrumental kijanką kijankami
locative kijance kijankach
vocative kijanko kijanki

Descendants

Further reading

  • kijanka in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • kijanka in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • kijanka in PWN's encyclopedia
  • Sopoliga, Miroslav (1982) “Ofen und Herd im Volkswohnsitz der Ukrainer in der Ostslowakei”, in Acta Ethnographica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, volume 31, page 327 from 315 to 335
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1987), “*kyjanъka”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков (in Russian), numbers 13 (*kroměžirъ – *kyžiti), Moscow: Nauka, page 256
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