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Polish
Etymology
From Wojtek. Possibly a connection with the date of 23 April, Wojciech's name day, the storks arrive between March and April; or in reference to an alternate name for the child Wojtek, because the stork is supposed to bring babies.
Pronunciation
Noun
wojtek m animal
- (dialectal, Kuyavia) stork, white stork
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:bocian
Declension
Noun
wojtek m inan
- (Kuyavia) synonym of krasnoborowik ceglastopory
Further reading
- wojtek in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Władysław Matlakowski (1892) “wojtek”, in Słownik wyrazów ludowych zebranych w Czerskiem i na Kujawach (in Polish), Kraków: nakł. Akademii Umiejętności; Drukarnia Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego pod zarządem A. M. Kosterkiewicza, page 19