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Polish
Etymology
From za- + tył + -ek.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɘwɛk
- Syllabification: za‧ty‧łek
Noun
zatyłek m inan (related adjective zatyłkowy)
- (dated) Synonym of tył (“back, rear”)
- (dialectal) board closing the rear of a wooden wagon
- (dialectal, usually in the plural) ends at the top of a thatched roof
- (obsolete) Synonym of kark (“nape”)
- (obsolete, usually in the plural, military) rearguard
- Synonyms: ariergarda, odwód, tylna straż
Declension
Noun
zatyłek nvir pl
- (in the plural) annex, outbuilding
- Synonyms: indermach, oficyna
Declension
Further reading
- zatyłek in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- zatyłek in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- zatyłek in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego
- Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “ZATYŁEK”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- Brückner, Aleksander (1927) “tył”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna