stragarz
Polish
[edit]Etymology
[edit](This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Compare tragarz.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]stragarz m inan
- (regional) joist supporting a wooden ceiling
- 1925 (first published 1896), Stefan Żeromski, O żołnierzu tułaczu, J. Mortkowicz, chapter 1:
- ...[sierżant] zginał kark, żeby nie uszkodzić pompona przy kapeluszu, zawadzającego o stragarz powały niskiego pokoju.
- ...[the sergeant] had his head ducked in order to not damage the pompom on his hat, which kept getting caught on a joist of the ceiling of the low-ceilinged room.
Declension
[edit]Declension of stragarz
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | stragarz | stragarze |
| genitive | stragarza | stragarzy |
| dative | stragarzowi | stragarzom |
| accusative | stragarz | stragarze |
| instrumental | stragarzem | stragarzami |
| locative | stragarzu | stragarzach |
| vocative | stragarzu | stragarze |
Further reading
[edit]- stragarz in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “stragarz”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “stragarz”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1915), “stragarz”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 6, Warsaw, page 444