sejmik
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English
Etymology
Noun
sejmik (plural sejmiks or sejmiki)
- (historical) A local or regional parliament in Poland; a dietine.
- 2018, Robert I. Frost, The Oxford History of Poland-Lithuania, volume 1:
- Forced to raise extraordinary taxes for the Thirteen Years' War, Casimir called general assemblies that were in effect meetings of his council, but their decisions were not seen as binding on the districts until ratified by the provincial sejmiks.
Polish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Polish sejmik. By surface analysis, sejm + -ik.
Pronunciation
Noun
sejmik m inan (related adjective sejmikowy)
- (government) sejmik (regional assembly for each of the sixteen voivodeships of Poland)
- sejmik (total number of people who sit in a sejmik)
- (government, historical) sejmik (local or regional parliament in the Kingdom of Poland or the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth)
- Hypernym: zjazd
- (historical) sejmik (total number of people who sit in a sejmik in the Kingdom of Poland or the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth)
- (figurative) tumultuous, noisy gathering
- Hypernym: zebranie
- (ornithology) parliament (large flock of birds gathering in one place before flying off to warm countries)
- Synonym: sejm
Declension
Declension of sejmik
Derived terms
noun
verb
- sejmikować impf
Related terms
adjective
nouns
verb
- sejmować impf