See also: rolník

Kashubian

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Etymology

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From rolô +‎ -nik.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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rolnik m pers (related adjective rolniczi)

  1. (agriculture) farmer (person who works the land and/or who keeps livestock)
    1. farmer who practices agriculture on a smaller scale usually for his own needs and with his family
  2. (colloquial) man (adult human male)
    Synonym: chłop
  3. (colloquial) partner (husband, male fiancé, or boyfriend)

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Further reading

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  • Stefan Ramułt (1893) “rolńik”, in Słownik języka pomorskiego czyli kaszubskiego (in Kashubian), page 182
  • Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “rolnik”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi[2]
  • rolnik”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

Old Polish

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Etymology

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From rola +‎ -nik. First attested in 1471.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /rɔlʲniːk/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /rɔlʲnik/

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rolnik m animacy unattested

  1. (agriculture) farmer (person who works the land and/or who keeps livestock)
    • 1901 [1471], Materiały i Prace Komisji Językowej Akademii Umiejętności w Krakowie, volume V, page 6:
      Rusticus rolnyk, oracz (Prol)
      [Rusticus rolnik, oracz (Prol)]
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Descendants

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  • Masurian: rolnik
  • Polish: rolnik
  • Silesian: rolnik

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Polish

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Polish rolnik. By surface analysis, rola +‎ -nik. Compare Kashubian rolnik.

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rolnik m pers (female equivalent rolniczka, related adjective rolniczy)

  1. (agriculture) farmer (person who works the land and/or who keeps livestock)
    Synonym: farmer
  2. (agriculture) farmer (expert in farming or agriculture)

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Trivia

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According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), rolnik is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 5 times in scientific texts, 21 times in news, 52 times in essays, 2 times in fiction, and 0 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 80 times, making it the 807th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

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  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “rolnik”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎[1] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 496

Further reading

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  • rolnik in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • rolnik in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “rolnik”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  • ROLNIK”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 13.12.2010
  • Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “rolnik”, in Słownik języka polskiego
  • Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “rolnik”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
  • J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1912), “rolnik”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 5, Warsaw, page 559
  • rolnik in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego

Silesian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Polish rolnik. By surface analysis, rolŏ +‎ -nik.

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Noun

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rolnik m pers

  1. (agriculture) farmer (person who works the land and/or who keeps livestock)

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