rolnik

See also: rolník

Kashubian

Alternative forms

  • rólnik

Etymology

From rolô + -nik.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈrɔlnik/
  • Syllabification: rol‧nik

Noun

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)

Derived terms

nouns
  • rolnictwò
adjectives
  • rólny

Further reading

  • 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
  • rolnik”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

Old Polish

Etymology

From rola + -nik. First attested in 1471.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

rolnik m ?

  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)]
adjectives
nouns

Descendants

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

References

Polish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈrɔl.ɲik/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈrɔl.ɲik/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔlɲik
  • Syllabification: rol‧nik

Noun

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)

Declension

Derived terms

nouns
adjectives
adverbs
  • rolniczo
nouns

Trivia

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]

References

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

Further reading

  • 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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈrɔlɲik/
  • Rhymes: -ɔlɲik
  • Syllabification: rol‧nik

Noun

rolnik m pers

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

Derived terms

nouns

Further reading

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