kijanka

See also: Kijanka, kijanką, and Kijanką

Polish
kijanka (tadpole)
kijanka (batlet)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish kijanka, from kijania, kijań. By surface analysis, kij +‎ -an +‎ -ka.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kiˈjaŋ.ka/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -aŋka
  • Syllabification: ki‧jan‧ka
  • Homophone: Kijanka

Noun

kijanka f

  1. tadpole, polliwog, porriwiggle (toad or frog larva)
  2. batlet (tool sometimes used to beat flax but especially as a battledore to wash laundry)

Declension
Declension of kijanka
singular plural
nominative kijanka kijanki
genitive kijanki kijanek
dative kijance kijankom
accusative kijankę kijanki
instrumental kijanką kijankami
locative kijance kijankach
vocative kijanko kijanki

Descendants
  • → Belarusian: кія́нка (kijánka)
  • → Czech: kyjanka
  • → Russian: кия́нка (kijánka)
  • → Slovak: kyjanka, kijanka
  • → Ukrainian: кия́нка (kyjánka)

Further reading
  • kijanka in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • kijanka in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Sopoliga, Miroslav (1982) “Ofen und Herd im Volkswohnsitz der Ukrainer in der Ostslowakei”, in Acta Ethnographica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, volume 31, page 327 from 315 to 335
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1987), “*kyjanъka”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 13 (*kroměžirъ – *kyžiti), Moscow: Nauka, page 256
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