kierowca
Appearance
Polish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From kierować + -ca. Coined by Jan Stanisław Nakielski and Romuald Pianko in 1912, in a submission to a contest organized by a monthly "Lotnik i Automobilista", to replace the word szofer.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kierowca m pers (female equivalent (rare) kierowczyni)
- driver (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus)
- Synonym: (archaic) automobilista
Declension
[edit]Declension of kierowca
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Belarusian: кіро́ўца (kirówca)
References
[edit]Further reading
[edit]Categories:
- Polish terms suffixed with -ca
- Polish terms coined by Lotnik i Automobilista
- Polish coinages
- Polish 3-syllable words
- Polish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Polish terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:Polish/ɔft͡sa
- Rhymes:Polish/ɔft͡sa/3 syllables
- Polish lemmas
- Polish nouns
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