spachać

Polish

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• (Greater Poland):
  • (Kuyavia) IPA^(key): /ˈspaxat͡ɕ/

Verb

spachać impf

1. (transitive, Kuyavia) to sweep off chaff left after blowing away other parts lighter than the grain using a goose feather

Derived terms

nouns

• spachowiny
• spaszki

 

Further reading

• Józef Bliziński (1860) “spachać”, in Abecadłowy spis wyrazów języka ludowego w Kujawach i Galicyi Zachodniej (in Polish), Warszawa, page 631
• Oskar Kolberg (1867) “spachać”, in Dzieła wszystkie: Kujawy (in Polish), page 276