kijanka

See also: Kijanka, kijanką, and Kijanką

Polish

kijanka sense 1

kijanka sense 2

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kiˈjaŋ.ka/

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• Rhymes: -aŋka
• Syllabification: ki‧jan‧ka
• Homophone: Kijanka

Noun

kijanka f

2. tadpole, polliwog, porriwiggle (young toad or frog in its larval stage of development that lives in water, has a tail and no legs, and, like a fish, breathes through gills)
4. 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
• kijanka in PWN's encyclopedia
• 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