budzisuka
Polish
Etymology
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰowdʰéyeti
Proto-Balto-Slavic *báudīˀtei
Proto-Slavic *budìti
Old Polish budzić
Polish budzić
Polish budzisuka
From budzić (“to wake”) + -i- + suka (“bitch”). Compare Silesian budzisuka.
Pronunciation
- (Greater Poland):
- (Central Greater Poland) IPA(key): [bu.d͡ʑiˈsu.ka]
- (Lesser Poland):
- (Western Lublin) IPA(key): [bu.d͡ʑiˈsu.ka]
Noun
budzisuka f
- (Central Greater Poland, Tyniec pod Kaliszem) night watchman; assistant to a village mayor (sołtys)
- (Western Lublin, Janów Lubelski County) tallyman
- Synonym: karbowy
Further reading
- Hieronim Łopaciński (1892), “budzisuka”, in “Przyczynki do nowego słownika języka polskiego (słownik wyrazów ludowych z Lubelskiego i innych okolic Królestwa Polskiego)”, in Prace Filologiczne (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw: skł. gł. w Księgarni E. Wende i Ska, page 184
Silesian
Etymology
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰowdʰéyeti
Proto-Balto-Slavic *báudīˀtei
Proto-Slavic *budìti
Old Polish budzić
Silesian budzić
Silesian -i-
Silesian budzisuka
From budzić (“to wake”) + -i- + suka (“bitch”).. Compare dialectal Polish budzisuka.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bu.d͡ʑiˈsu.ka/
- Rhymes: -uka
- Syllabification: bu‧dzi‧su‧ka
Noun
budzisuka f
- (obsolete, Bieńkowice) night watchman
- Synonym: suka
Further reading
- Jan Karłowicz (1907), “suka”, in Jan Łoś, editors, Słownik gwar polskich [Dictionary of Polish dialects] (in Polish), volume 5: R S Ś T, Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, page 260