chéra

See also: chera

Polish

Alternative forms

• chera (Kielce)

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “probably a clipping of cholera, but compare cherlać”)

Pronunciation

• (Masovia):
  • (Near Masovian) IPA^(key): /ˈxe.ra/
  • (Far Masovian) IPA^(key): /ˈxe.ra/

Noun

chéra f

1. (Far Masovian) Synonym of choroba (“disease”)

   Taká chéra go sie chyciła. ― This disease took him.

Interjection

chéra

1. (Near Masovian) Synonym of cholera (“damn it!”)

Further reading

• Zygmunt Wasilewski (1889) “chéra”, in Jagodne: wieś w powiecie łukowskim, gminie Dąbie: zarys etnograficzny (in Polish), Warsaw: M. Arct, page 240
• Stanisław Ciszewski (1909) “chéra”, in “Przyczynek do słownika gwary mazowieckiej”, in Prace Filologiczne (in Polish), volume 7, z. 1, Warsaw: skł. gł. w Księgarni E. Wende i Ska, page 205