Polonophone

English

Etymology

From French polonophone; equivalent to Polono- +‎ -phone.

Adjective

Polonophone (not comparable)

1. Polish-speaking.

Translations

Polish-speaking

• Czech: polonofonní
• Finnish: puolankielinen (fi)
• French: polonophone (fr)
• Georgian: პოლონურენოვანი (ṗolonurenovani)
• German: polnischsprachig
• Polish: polskojęzyczny (pl)
• Russian: польскоязы́чный (ru) (polʹskojazýčnyj)
• Swedish: polsktalande (sv)
• Ukrainian: польськомо́вний (polʹsʹkomóvnyj)

Noun

Polonophone (plural Polonophones)

1. A speaker of Polish.
   • 2016, Tomasz Kamusella, “Migration or Immigration? Ireland's New and Unexpected Polish-Language Community”, in Tomasz Kamusella, Motoki Nomachi, Catherine Gibson, editors, The Palgrave Handbook of Slavic Languages, Identities and Borders (Palgrave Handbooks), Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 538:

     Furthermore, with the rising popularity of PayPal in the second half of the 2000s, Polonophones living in the British Isles started using the Polish online auction website Allegro.pl (founded in 1999) to the same end.

Translations

speaker of Polish

• French: polonophone (fr) m or f,
• German: Polnischsprecher m