świętojanka

Polish

Etymology

From święty +‎ -o- +‎ Jan +‎ -ka, named after John the Evangelist. Calque of German Johannisbeere. Compare Masovian Polish janki.

Pronunciation

Noun

świętojanka f

  1. (Central Greater Poland, Poznań) synonym of porzeczka

Further reading

  • Oskar Kolberg (1877) “świętojanhi”, in “Rzecz o mowie ludu wielkopolskiego”, in Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowéj (in Polish), volume 1, III (Materyjały etnologiczne), page 24
  • Waldemar Wierzba (2013) “świętojanki”, in Słownik Poznańskie słowa i ausdrucki (in Polish), 1st edition, Mierzyn: Albus, →ISBN, page 268
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