wajdelota
Polish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Derived from German Waidler (“volkhv”) and Old Prussian waidlemai (“we tell fortunes; we do witchcraft”), created later in time describing the supposed lower priests, sorcerers, fortune tellers and bard singers of pagan Lithuania.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]wajdelota m pers
- (historical) vaidelotis (lower priest of the pagan Lithuanians, also a singer, bard)
Declension
[edit]Declension of wajdelota
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | wajdelota | wajdeloci/wajdeloty (deprecative) |
| genitive | wajdeloty | wajdelotów |
| dative | wajdelocie | wajdelotom |
| accusative | wajdelotę | wajdelotów |
| instrumental | wajdelotą | wajdelotami |
| locative | wajdelocie | wajdelotach |
| vocative | wajdeloto | wajdeloci |
References
[edit]- ^ Brückner, Aleksander (1927), “wajdelota”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna
Further reading
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