peternelki

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Polish

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Noun

peternelki nvir pl

  1. (Northern Greater Poland, Eastern Greater Poland) bugs that bother a horse

Further reading

  • Oskar Kolberg (1877) “peternelki”, in “Rzecz o mowie ludu wielkopolskiego”, in Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowéj (in Polish), volume 1, III (Materyjały etnologiczne), page 35