klektać
Appearance
Polish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Polish klektać, from Proto-Slavic *klekotati, with a reduction of vowels,[1] ultimately of onomatopoeic origin.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]klektać impf (perfective zaklektać)
- (intransitive, archaic) Alternative form of klekotać
- 1840, Kazimiérz Władysław Wójcicki, Stare gawędy i obrazy[1], volume 1, Warszawa: Maxymilijan Chmielewski, archived from the original on 2022-08-29, pages 206–207:
- Słonko zwolna poczęło wschodzić, i złocić zboża, i trawe zielone, szary skowronek wzbijał się nad miedzę ze śpiéwem, słowik kwilił w gąszczach rzewliwie, kukułka kukała, po łąkach klekce bocian, stada żórawi ciągnęły ze śpiewem:...
- The sun slowly started to rise and turn the grains and the green grasses gold; a gray lark flew up over the border between fields with a song; a nightingale sang softly and mournfully in thickets; a cuckoo cuckooed; a stork clacked its beak in the uncultivated fields; flocks of cranes continued their song:...
- 1867, Oskar Kolberg, Lud: Jego zwyczaje, sposób życia, mowa, podania, przysłowia, obrzędy, gusła, zabawy, pieśni, muzyka i tańcy: Kujawy[2], volume 1, Warszawa: Drukarnia Jana Jaworskiego, archived from the original on 2022-08-29, page 47:
- Już skowronek nam zawitał;
Wojtuś bocian już zaklektał.- Already the lark has greeted us;
Wojtuś the stork has already clacked his beak.
- Already the lark has greeted us;
Conjugation
[edit]or
References
[edit]- ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “klektać”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
Further reading
[edit]- klektać in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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- Rhymes:Polish/ɛktat͡ɕ
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