sejmik

From Polish sejmik.

sejmik (plural sejmiks or sejmiki)

1. (historical) A local or regional parliament in Poland; a dietine.
   • 2018, Robert I. Frost, The Oxford History of Poland-Lithuania, volume 1:

     Forced to raise extraordinary taxes for the Thirteen Years' War, Casimir called general assemblies that were in effect meetings of his council, but their decisions were not seen as binding on the districts until ratified by the provincial sejmiks.

Inherited from Old Polish sejmik. By surface analysis, sejm +‎ -ik.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛj.mik/

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• Rhymes: -ɛjmik
• Syllabification: sej‧mik

sejmik m inan (related adjective sejmikowy)

1. (government) sejmik (regional assembly for each of the sixteen voivodeships of Poland)
   1. sejmik (total number of people who sit in a sejmik)
2. (government, historical) sejmik (local or regional parliament in the Kingdom of Poland or the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth)

   Hypernym: zjazd

   1. (historical) sejmik (total number of people who sit in a sejmik in the Kingdom of Poland or the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth)
3. (figurative) tumultuous, noisy gathering

   Hypernym: zebranie

4. (ornithology) parliament (large flock of birds gathering in one place before flying off to warm countries)

   Synonym: sejm

• sejmik in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• sejmik in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• sejmik in PWN's encyclopedia