Polak
DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Ultimately from Polish Polak. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
PronunciationEdit
Proper nounEdit
Polak
- A surname.
FrenchEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
Polak m (plural Polaks)
SynonymsEdit
PolishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Slavic *pȍľe (“field”) + -ak.[1][2][3]
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
Polak m pers (feminine Polka)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of Polak
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- → English: Polack
- English: palooka (probably; but see that entry for another theory)
- → Danish: polak
- → Finnish: polakki
- → French: polaque
- → Italian: polacco
- → Norwegian: polakk
- → Portuguese: polaco
- → Spanish: polaco
- → Swedish: polack
Proper nounEdit
Polak m pers or f
DeclensionEdit
Masculine surname:
Declension of Polak
The feminine surname is indeclinable.
Derived termsEdit
See alsoEdit
Further readingEdit
- Polak in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- Polak in Polish dictionaries at PWN
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2021), “Pole”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
- ^ Kraitsir, C. V. (1837). The Poles in the United States of America: Preceded by the Earliest History of the Slavonians, and by the History of Poland. United States: Kiderlen and Stollmeyer, p. 64
- ^ Kalman, B., Virágos, Z., Kálmán, B. (1978). The world of names : a study in Hungarian onomatology. Hungary: Akadémiai Kiadó, p. 107