Polak
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]Polak (plural Polaks)
- Alternative spelling of Polack
Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Ultimately from Polish Polak. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Polak
- a surname
French
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Polak m (plural Polaks)
Polish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Slavic *pȍľe (“field”) + -ak.[1][2][3]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Polak m pers (female equivalent Polka)
Declension
[edit]Declension of Polak
Related terms
[edit]adjective
adverb
noun
Descendants
[edit]- → English: Polack
- → Danish: polak
- → Finnish: polakki
- → French: polaque
- → Italian: polacco
- → Norwegian: polakk
- → Portuguese: polaco
- → Spanish: polaco
- → Swedish: polack
Proper noun
[edit]Polak m pers
- a male surname
Declension
[edit]Declension of Polak
Proper noun
[edit]Polak f (indeclinable)
- a female surname
Derived terms
[edit]See also
[edit]Trivia
[edit]According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), Polak is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 13 times in scientific texts, 23 times in news, 17 times in essays, 21 times in fiction, and 15 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 89 times, making it the 714th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “Pole”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
- ^ Kraitsir, C. V. (1837). The Poles in the United States of America: Preceded by the Earliest History of the Slavonians, and by the History of Poland. United States: Kiderlen and Stollmeyer, p. 64
- ^ Kalman, B., Virágos, Z., Kálmán, B. (1978). The world of names : a study in Hungarian onomatology. Hungary: Akadémiai Kiadó, p. 107
- ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “Polak”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 395
Further reading
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- Rhymes:Polish/ɔlak
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