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rataj

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Polish

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *òrtajь.

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -ataj
  • Syllabification: ra‧taj
  • Homophone: Rataj

Noun

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rataj m pers

  1. (agriculture, historical) farmer, farmhand (earner working for a landowner)
    Synonym: fornal
    Hypernyms: najmita, rolnik
    1. (Far Masovian) ox assistant (farmhand who helps with oxen)
  2. (obsolete or dialectal, Southern Greater Poland) ploughman
    Synonym: oracz

Declension

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Derived terms

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Further reading

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  • rataj in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Wojciech Grzegorzewicz (1894) “rataj”, in Sprawozdania Komisji Językowej Akademii Umiejętności (in Polish), volume 5, Krakow: Akademia Umiejętności, page 120
  • Oskar Kolberg (1877) “rataj”, in “Rzecz o mowie ludu wielkopolskiego”, in Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowéj (in Polish), volume 1, III (Materyjały etnologiczne), page 31