balka
Kashubian
Etymology
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Borrowed from German Balken. Compare Slovincian balka and Polish belka.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbal.ka/
- Rhymes: -alka
- Syllabification: bal‧ka
Noun
balka m inan
- beam (large piece of timber or iron)
- (agriculture) upper beam of a yoke
- stripe (badge worn by certain officers in the military or other forces)
- bale; ream (roll of fabric, paper; compressed and packed cuboid of various materials)
Further reading
- Stefan Ramułt (1893) “balka”, in Słownik języka pomorskiego czyli kaszubskiego (in Kashubian), page 4
- Sychta, Bernard (1967) “balka”, in Słownik gwar kaszubskich [Dictionary of Kashubian dialects] (in Polish), volumes 1 (A – Ǵ), Wrocław: Ossolineum, page 16
- Jan Trepczyk (1994) “belka”, in Słownik polsko-kaszubski (in Kashubian), volumes 1–2
- Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “belka”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi[1]
- “balka”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022
Maltese
| Root |
|---|
| b-l-k-j |
| 1 term |
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbal.ka/
Verb
balka (imperfect jbalki)
Conjugation
| positive forms | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |||||||
| 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | |||
| perfect | m | balkejt | balkejt | balka | balkejna | balkejtu | balkew | |
| f | balkiet | |||||||
| imperfect | m | nbalki | tbalki | jbalki | nbalku | tbalku | jbalku | |
| f | tbalki | |||||||
| imperative | balki | balku | ||||||
Old Polish
Alternative forms
Etymology
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Borrowed from Middle High German balke. First attested in 1459.
Pronunciation
Noun
balka f
- (attested in Greater Poland) beam (large piece of timber or iron)
- 1925 [1459], Kazimierz Kaczmarczyk, editor, Akta radzieckie poznańskie. Acta consularia Posnaniensia, volume I, Poznań, page 294:
- Tramites al. balky
- [Tramites al. balki]
Descendants
- Polish: belka, bałk, belk, bełk, bełka (Middle Polish), balk, balka, bałek, bałka, belek (obsolete)
- Silesian: bŏlka, balek, balk, belek, bŏlek
References
- Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “belka”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
- Brückner, Aleksander (1927) “belka”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna
- B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “(belka) balk, balka”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN
Slovincian
Etymology
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Borrowed from German Balken. Compare Kashubian balka and Polish belka.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbal.ka/
- Rhymes: -alka
- Syllabification: bal‧ka
Noun
balka f (diminutive balczica, augmentative balcziszczô, related adjective balkôwy)
- beam (large piece of timber or iron)
Related terms
nouns
Further reading
- Lorentz, Friedrich (1908) “bãlkă”, in Slovinzisches Wörterbuch[2] (in German), volume 1, Saint Petersburg: ОРЯС ИАН, page 14