kuľa

See also: Appendix:Variations of "kula"

Slovak

Etymology

Derived from Middle High German kūle, kugele. First attested in the 17th century.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kuʎa/, (high register) [ˈkuʎa], (common) [ˈkula]
  • Rhymes: -uʎa
  • Hyphenation: ku‧ľa

Noun

kuľa f

  1. (rare, dialectal) alternative form of guľa (ball, sphere)
  2. (dialectal) a long wooden pole with a hook at the end for hanging a bucket and for collecting water from a well

Declension

Declension of kuľa
(pattern ulica)
singularplural
nominativekuľakule
genitivekulekúľ,
kulí
dativekulikuliam
accusativekuľukule
locativekulikuliach
instrumentalkuľoukuľami

References

  1. ^ Králik, Ľubor (2016), “guľa”, in Stručný etymologický slovník slovenčiny [Concise Etymological Dictionary of Slovak] (in Slovak), Bratislava: VEDA; JÚĽŠ SAV, →ISBN, page 186

Further reading

  • kuľa”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026