pôlc

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Kashubian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pàlьcь.

Pronunciation

Noun

pôlc m inan (diminutive pôlck, related adjective pôlcowi)

  1. (anatomy) digit; finger; toe
  2. clothes line pole (pole for holding up a clothes line)
  3. turnip cut into long cubes, brewed with boiling water together with potatoes and cooked with goose
  4. snot; booger (material expelled by the nose)

Further reading

  • Stefan Ramułt (1893) “pôlc”, in Słownik języka pomorskiego czyli kaszubskiego (in Kashubian), page 130
  • Sychta, Bernard (1970) “palec, palc, pålc”, in Słownik gwar kaszubskich [Dictionary of Kashubian dialects] (in Polish), volumes 4 (P – Ř), Wrocław: Ossolineum, page 13
  • Jan Trepczyk (1994) “palec”, in Słownik polsko-kaszubski (in Kashubian), volumes 1–2
  • Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “palec”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi
  • pôlc”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022