łaps
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Polish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
łaps m pers
- (colloquial, derogatory, law enforcement) cop (police officer)
- (colloquial) scoundrel, rascal
Declension[edit]
Declension of łaps
Interjection[edit]
łaps
- (colloquial) gotcha (quick catch of something)
Further reading[edit]
- łaps in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Sudovian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Balto-Slavic [Term?]. Compare Lithuanian lãpė, Latvian lapsa, Old Prussian lape.[1][2]
Noun[edit]
łapſ
- (zoology) fox
- “Pagan dialects from Narew” line 78, (copied by V. Zinov, 1983):
References[edit]
- ^ Zigmas Zinkevičius (1985) “Lenkų-jotvingių žodynėlis? [A Polish-Yotvingian dictionary?]”, in Baltistica (in Lithuanian), volume 21, number 1, page 75: “łapſ ‘lapė, l. lisa’ 78.”
- ^ “lãpė” in Hock et al., Altlitauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch 2.0 (online, 2020–): “nar. łaps sm. ‘Fuchs’”.
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