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Polish
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ik
- Syllabification: śpik
Etymology 1
Inherited from Old Polish śpik. By surface analysis, spać + -ik. For the semantic shift, compare German Schläfe.
Noun
śpik m inan
- (colloquial) snot (nasal mucus)
- Synonyms: babok, babol, gil, glut, koza, smark
- (archaic) doze, nap, snooze
- Synonym: drzemka
- (archaic) sleepiness
- Synonym: senność
- (Central Greater Poland, Poznań, Far Masovian, Malbork) sleep
- Synonym: sen
- Zerwałem sie ze śpiku. ― I broke myself out of sleep.
- (countable or in the plural, Poznań, Malbork, anatomy) temple (region of skull)
- Synonym: skroń
Declension
Etymology 2
Borrowed from German Speck.
Noun
śpik m inan
- (rare) Alternative form of szpik
Declension
Further reading
- śpik in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Brückner, Aleksander (1927) “szpik”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna
- Wojciech Grzegorzewicz (1894) “śpik”, in Sprawozdania Komisji Językowej Akademii Umiejętności (in Polish), volume 5, Krakow: Akademia Umiejętności, page 122
- Waldemar Wierzba (2013) “śpik”, in Słownik Poznańskie słowa i ausdrucki (in Polish), 1st edition, Mierzyn: Albus, →ISBN, page 266
- Oskar Kolberg (1877) “śpik”, in “Rzecz o mowie ludu wielkopolskiego”, in Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowéj (in Polish), volume 1, III (Materyjały etnologiczne), page 23
- Dr Nadmorski (Józef Łęgowski) (1889) “śpik”, in “Spis wyrazów właściwych gwarze malborskiej i kociewskiej”, in Wisła. Miesięcznik Geograficzno-Etnograficzny (in Polish), volume 3 z.4, page 747