opałka

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See also: opałką, Opalka, opálka, Opálka, and opáłka

Old Polish

Etymology

From *opałać + -ka, from o- + pałać. First attested in 1495.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /ɔpaːɫka/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /ɔpɒɫka/

Noun

opałka f

  1. (attested in Greater Poland, hapax) furnace kindling (flammable material used for kindling in a furnace)
    • 1892 [1495], Adolf Warschauer, editor, Sonder-Veröffentlichungen der historischen Gesellschaft für die Provinz Posen, volume I, Poznań, page 390:
      Pro lignis aput Bernhardinos receptis 7 florenos, za opalku 1 grossum, pro luminibus ½ grossi
      [Pro lignis aput Bernhardinos receptis 7 florenos, za opałkę 1 grossum, pro luminibus ½ grossi]

Descendants

  • Polish: opałka, opáłka (Przemyśl)
  • Silesian: ôpołka

References

  • Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “opałka”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
  • Mańczak, Witold (2017) “opałka”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN
  • Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “opałka”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  • S. Urbańczyk, editor (1969), “opałka”, in Słownik staropolski‎ (in Polish), volume 5, Wrocław, Warsaw, Kraków: Polish Academy of Sciences, page 589
  • B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “opałka”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

Polish

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Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish opałka. By surface analysis, opałać +‎ -ka.

Pronunciation

 
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  • Rhymes: -awka
  • Syllabification: o‧pał‧ka

Noun

opałka f

  1. wicker basket (woven basket used in a farmstead)
    Synonym: kobiałka
    1. (obsolete, metallurgy) basket woven from reeds, twigs or bast on wooden rods, used for carrying coals to a blast furnace
  2. (obsolete) winnow vessel (vessel for winnowing grain)
  3. (obsolete) act of blocking airways or making new ones to conduct a fire when burning a coal fire
  4. (obsolete, in the plural) flakes (bits dropped of, especially from groats)
    Synonym: łuski
  5. (obsolete) cinder; burned hut

Declension

Declension of opałka
singular plural
nominative opałka opałki
genitive opałki opałek
dative opałce opałkom
accusative opałkę opałki
instrumental opałką opałkami
locative opałce opałkach
vocative opałko opałki

Derived terms

nouns

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