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Kashubian
Etymology
From rolô + -nik.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈrɔl.ɲik/
- Rhymes: -ɔlɲik
- Syllabification: rol‧nik
Noun
rolnik m pers (related adjective rolniczi)
- (agriculture) farmer (person who works the land and/or who keeps livestock)
- farmer who practices agriculture on a smaller scale usually for his own needs and with his family
- (colloquial) man (adult human male)
- Synonym: chłop
- (colloquial) partner (husband, male fiancé, or boyfriend)
Derived terms
Further reading
- Stefan Ramułt (1893) “rolńik”, in Słownik języka pomorskiego czyli kaszubskiego (in Kashubian), page 182
- Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “rolnik”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi
- “rolnik”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022
Old Polish
Etymology
From rola + -nik. First attested in 1471.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /rɔlʲniːk/
- IPA(key): (15th CE) /rɔlʲnik/
Noun
rolnik m animacy unattested
- (agriculture) farmer (person who works the land and/or who keeps livestock)
1901 [1471], Materiały i Prace Komisji Językowej Akademii Umiejętności w Krakowie, volume V, page 6:Rusticus rolnyk, oracz (Prol)- [Rusticus rolnik, oracz (Prol)]
Descendants
References
- Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “rolny I”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
- Mańczak, Witold (2017) “rolny I”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN
- Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “rolnik”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
- 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), “rolnik”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN
Polish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Polish rolnik. By surface analysis, rola + -nik. Compare Kashubian rolnik.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɔlɲik
- Syllabification: rol‧nik
Noun
rolnik m pers (female equivalent rolniczka, related adjective rolniczy)
- (agriculture) farmer (person who works the land and/or who keeps livestock)
- Synonym: farmer
- (agriculture) farmer (expert in farming or agriculture)
Declension
Derived terms
Trivia
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), rolnik is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 5 times in scientific texts, 21 times in news, 52 times in essays, 2 times in fiction, and 0 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 80 times, making it the 807th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]
References
- ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “rolnik”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 496
Further reading
- rolnik in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- rolnik in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “rolnik”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- “ROLNIK”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 13.12.2010
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “rolnik”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “rolnik”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1912), “rolnik”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 5, Warsaw, page 559
- rolnik in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego
Silesian
Etymology
Inherited from Old Polish rolnik. By surface analysis, rolŏ + -nik.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈrɔl.ɲik/
- Rhymes: -ɔlɲik
- Syllabification: rol‧nik
Noun
rolnik m pers
- (agriculture) farmer (person who works the land and/or who keeps livestock)
Derived terms
Further reading