celnik

See also: celník and čelnik

Kashubian

Alternative forms

  • colnik

Etymology

From cło +‎ -nik. Compare Polish celnik.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡sɛl.ɲik/
  • Rhymes: -ɛlɲik
  • Syllabification: cel‧nik

Noun

celnik m pers

  1. customs officer (customs officer an official who checks the people and goods they carry across a border and collects customs duties)
    Synonym: cłownik

Further reading

  • Stefan Ramułt (1993) [1893] “celnik”, in Jerzy Trepczyk, editor, Słownik języka pomorskiego czyli kaszubskiego (in Kashubian), 3 edition
  • Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “celnik”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi[1]
  • celnik”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

Old Polish

Etymology

From cło +‎ -nik. First attested in the 15th century.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /t͡sʲɛlʲniːk/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /t͡sʲɛlʲnik/

Noun

celnik m animacy unattested

  1. (attested in Lesser Poland, Masovia, Greater Poland) tax collector; tariff collector
    • Beginning of the 15th century, Łukasz z Wielkiego Koźmina, Kazania gnieźnieńskie[2], Krakow, page gl. 145 a:
      Czelnika theolonarium
      [Celnika theolonarium]
    • 1928 [End of the fifteenth century], Jan Janów, editor, Zespół ewangelijny Biblioteki Ordynacji Zamoyskich nr 1116, Warsaw, page 298:
      I przyszly thesz czelnykovye
      [I przyszli też celnikowie]
    • c. 1500, Wokabularz lubiński, Lubiń: inkunabuł Archiwum Archidiecezjalnego w Gnieźnie, sygn. Inc. 78d., page 137v:
      Theolonarius eyn zolner czelnyk
      [Theolonarius eyn zolner celnik]
    • 1874-1891 [c. 1500], Rozprawy i Sprawozdania z Posiedzeń Wydziału Filologicznego Akademii Umiejętności[3], [4], [5], volume XLVII, page 374:
      Qm fuit *celnych
      [Qm fuit *celnik]

Descendants

  • Polish: celnik
  • Silesian: celnik

References

Polish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish celnik. By surface analysis, cło +‎ -nik. Compare Kashubian celnik.

Pronunciation

 
  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡sɛl.ɲik/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛlɲik
  • Syllabification: cel‧nik

Noun

celnik m pers (female equivalent celniczka, related adjective celniczy)

  1. customs officer (customs officer an official who checks the people and goods they carry across a border and collects customs duties)
  2. (biblical, archaic) tax collector
    1. (Middle Polish, biblical) extortionist (dishonest tax collector)
    2. (Middle Polish, biblical) synonym of grzesznik
  3. (archaic) tax tenant
  4. (Middle Polish) synonym of kupiec

Declension

Further reading

Silesian

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish celnik. By surface analysis, cło +‎ -nik.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡sɛl.ɲik/
  • Rhymes: -ɛlɲik
  • Syllabification: cel‧nik

Noun

celnik m pers

  1. customs officer (customs officer an official who checks the people and goods they carry across a border and collects customs duties)

Further reading