chodnik

See also: chodník and chòdnik

Old Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *xodьnikъ. By surface analysis, chód +‎ -nik. First attested in 1419.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /xɔdni(ː)k/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /xɔdnik/

Noun

chodnik m animacy unattested

  1. (attested in Greater Poland) path
    • 1874 [1419], Monumenta Medii Aevi Historica res gestas Poloniae illustrantia. Pomniki Dziejowe Wieków Średnich do objaśnienia rzeczy polskich służące[1], volume VIII, page 452:
      Iuxta semitam dictam chodnyk
      [Iuxta semitam dictam chodnik]
    • 1916 [second half of the 15th century], Stanisław Słoński, editor, Psałterz puławski[2], Greater Poland, pages 22, 3:
      Dowyodl mye na chodnyky sprawyedlnoszczy (deduxit me super semitas iustitiae)
      [Dowiodł mie na chodniki sprawiedlności (deduxit me super semitas iustitiae)]
verbs

Descendants

  • Polish: chodnik
  • Silesian: chodnik

References

  • Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “chodnik”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  • 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), “chodnik”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish chodnik. By surface analysis, chód +‎ -nik.

Pronunciation

 
  • IPA(key): /ˈxɔd.ɲik/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔdɲik
  • Syllabification: chod‧nik

Noun

chodnik m inan (diminutive chodniczek, related adjective chodnikowy)

  1. pavement, sidewalk (area for walking next to road)
    Synonym: trotuar
  2. floormat (long and narrow carpet)
  3. (mining) stulm; gallery (underground passage in a mine)
  4. walkway, passage; footpath
    1. (Middle Polish) garden path
  5. tubule drilled by insects in the bark of trees, wood or plants (Is there an English equivalent to this definition?)
  6. (obsolete) clog (wooden shoe)
    Synonym: chodak
  7. (Middle Polish) courtyard, court, yard
    Synonym: podwórze
  8. (Middle Polish) cloister
    Synonym: krużganek

Declension

nouns
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Further reading

Silesian

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish chodnik. By surface analysis, chōd +‎ -nik.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈxɔd.ɲik/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔdɲik
  • Syllabification: chod‧nik

Noun

chodnik m inan

  1. pavement, sidewalk

Further reading