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Lower Sorbian
Pronunciation
Verb
pałka
- third-person singular present of pałkaś
Noun
pałka f
- the wash, laundry
Declension
Polish
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *palъka. By surface analysis, pała + -ka.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -awka
- Syllabification: pał‧ka
Noun
pałka f (diminutive pałeczka, augmentative pała)
- cudgel, club
- truncheon, baton
- cattail (any plant of the genus Typha)
- (Żywiec, anatomy) Synonym of głowa
Declension
Further reading
- pałka in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- pałka in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Izydor Kopernicki (1875) “pałka”, in Rozprawy i Sprawozdania z Posiedzeń Wydziału Filologicznego Akademii Umiejętności (I), volume 3, Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, page 374