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palica

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Lower Sorbian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Slavic *palica (stick, staff). Cognate with Upper Sorbian palica (clapper), Polish pałka (club, cudgel), Czech palice (mallet), Old Church Slavonic палица (palica, stick, staff), Russian па́лица (pálica, club, cudgel).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈpalit͡sa/, [ˈpalʲit͡sa]

Noun

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palica f (diminutive palicka)

  1. clapper (object suspended inside a bell that causes it to ring)

Declension

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Further reading

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  • Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “palica”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
  • Starosta, Manfred (1999) “palica”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

Polish

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Etymology

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From palec +‎ -ica.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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palica f

  1. (Chełmno) mitten; glove (hand covering with one or more fingers)

Further reading

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  • Gustaw Pobłocki (1887) “palica”, in Słownik kaszubski z dodatkiem idyotyzmów chełmińskich i kociewskich (in Polish), 2 edition, Chełmno, page 137

Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *palica.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /pâlit͡sa/
  • Hyphenation: pa‧li‧ca

Noun

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pȁlica f (Cyrillic spelling па̏лица)

  1. bat
  2. rod
  3. cane

Declension

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Declension of palica
singular plural
nominative palica palice
genitive palice palica
dative palici palicama
accusative palicu palice
vocative palice / palico palice
locative palici palicama
instrumental palicom palicama

Further reading

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  • palica”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025