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Polish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Polish sojka, from Proto-Slavic *sojьka.
Pronunciation
Noun
sójka f (diminutive sójeczka)
- Eurasian jay (Garrulus glandarius)
- Synonyms: sójka zwyczajna, sójka żołędziówka
- any jay (corvid) belonging to Garrulus, Perisoreus, or Cyanopica
- (colloquial) punch (hit with one's fist)
- Synonyms: dubel, kuks, kuksaniec, szturchaniec
- (colloquial) elbow (hit with the elbow)
- Synonyms: kuksaniec, kuks, szturchaniec
- (Near Masovian) cabbage or beetroot pierogi
- Hypernym: pieróg
Declension
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Further reading
- sójka in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- sójka in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Władysław Matlakowski (1891) “sójka”, in “Zbiór wyrazów ludowych dawnej ziemi czerskiej”, in Sprawozdania Komisyi Językowej Akademii Umiejętności, volume 4, Krakow: Drukarnia Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, page 370