Poleszuk

English

Etymology

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Noun

Poleszuk pl (plural only)

1. Alternative form of Poleshuk
   • 2008, Lech Mróz, Aleksander Posern-Zieliński, Exploring home, neighbouring and distant cultures, →ISBN:

     For different reasons the Poleszuk could not participate in the process of building Polish national identity. The reasons were rooted not in cultural differences, in a different language and in their Orthodox religion.

   • 2014, Jim Jose, Rob Imre, Not So Strange Bedfellows: The Nexus of Politics and Religion in the 21st Century, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 96:

     The Greek Catholic Church was driven underground, but today a small Greek Catholic community has been revived, based mainly among the Poleszuk community in the south west of the country.

   • 2014, Wiesław Szpilka, “Batman – a Story of Creation”, in Konteksty‎^[1], number 0, archived from the original on 16 June 2020, page 357:

     The Poleszuk and Hutsul peoples or the Tatra Mts. highlanders were once treated as “lesser brothers” but not as residents of another continent.

Polish

Poleszucy

Etymology

From Polesie +‎ -uk.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔˈlɛ.ʂuk/

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• Rhymes: -ɛʂuk
• Syllabification: Po‧le‧szuk

Noun

Poleszuk m pers (female equivalent Poleszuczka, related adjective poleszucki)

1. Poleshuk (member of an ethnic group descended from the people of Polesia)

Declension

Declension of Poleszuk

	singular	plural
nominative	Poleszuk	Poleszucy/Poleszuki (deprecative)
genitive	Poleszuka	Poleszuków
dative	Poleszukowi	Poleszukom
accusative	Poleszuka	Poleszuków
instrumental	Poleszukiem	Poleszukami
locative	Poleszuku	Poleszukach
vocative	Poleszuku	Poleszucy

Related terms

adjective

• poleski

 

nouns

• polesiak
• polesianka
• polesie
• Polesie

 

Further reading

• Poleszuk in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Poleszuk in Polish dictionaries at PWN