kaczka
Appearance
Polish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Polish kaczka, from Proto-Slavic *kačьka. Probably onomatopoeic. Cognates include Czech kachna, kačka, and Slovak kačka, kačica.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈkat͡ʂ.ka/
- (Greater Poland):
Noun
[edit]kaczka f (male equivalent kaczor, diminutive kaczuszka or kaczeczka, related adjective kaczczany or kaczczy or kaczkowy)
- duck (bird)
- duck meat
- urinal (bottle)
- (aeronautics) canard
- (colloquial) false information, canard
- (colloquial, music) wah-wah pedal
- (Kuyavia, fishing) certain part of a seine
Declension
[edit]Declension of kaczka
Derived terms
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verbs
Related terms
[edit]adjective
nouns
Descendants
[edit]- → Low Prussian: Katschke
Further reading
[edit]- kaczka in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- kaczka in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “kaczka”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- Marek Kunicki-Goldfinger (28.05.2019) “KACKA”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
- Brückner, Aleksander (1927) “kaczka”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna
- Oskar Kolberg (1867) “kaczka”, in Dzieła wszystkie: Kujawy (in Polish), page 271
Categories:
- Polish terms inherited from Old Polish
- Polish terms derived from Old Polish
- Polish terms inherited from Proto-Slavic
- Polish terms derived from Proto-Slavic
- Polish onomatopoeias
- Polish 2-syllable words
- Polish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Polish terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:Polish/at͡ʂka
- Rhymes:Polish/at͡ʂka/2 syllables
- Polish terms with homophones
- Polish lemmas
- Polish nouns
- Polish feminine nouns
- pl:Aeronautics
- Polish colloquialisms
- pl:Music
- Kuyavian Polish
- pl:Fishing
- pl:Containers
- pl:Ducks
- pl:Meats
- pl:Toilet (room)