ortówka

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Polish

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Etymology

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Particularly: “Kolberg says this is the same as hurtówka, so this could be an alt form, but I'm not sure how attested hurtówka is”

Pronunciation

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Noun

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ortówka f

  1. (Southern Greater Poland) remaining straw from a pole trestle placed at the fence of a sheep pasture used for bedding

Further reading

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  • Oskar Kolberg (1877) “ortówka”, in “Rzecz o mowie ludu wielkopolskiego”, in Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowéj (in Polish), volume 1, III (Materyjały etnologiczne), page 31