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Polish
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *mękyna.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ina
- Syllabification: mię‧ki‧na
Noun
miękina f
- (agriculture) chaff (inedible parts of a grain-producing plant)
- Synonym: plewa
- (Near Masovian, in the plural) hard outer covering of millet grains obtained after crushing them into millet groats
Declension
Further reading
- miękina in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Władysław Matlakowski (1891) “miękiny”, in “Zbiór wyrazów ludowych dawnej ziemi czerskiej”, in Sprawozdania Komisyi Językowej Akademii Umiejętności, volume 4, Krakow: Drukarnia Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, page 365