balka

Kashubian

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Germanic *balkô

Proto-West Germanic *balkō

Old High German balko

German Balkenbor.

Kashubian balka

Borrowed from German Balken. Compare Slovincian balka and Polish belka.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbalka/
• Rhymes: -alka
• Syllabification: bal‧ka

Noun

balka m inan

1. beam (large piece of timber or iron)
   1. (agriculture) upper beam of a yoke
2. stripe (badge worn by certain officers in the military or other forces)
3. bale; ream (roll of fabric, paper; compressed and packed cuboid of various materials)

Further reading

• Stefan Ramułt (1893) “balka”, in Słownik języka pomorskiego czyli kaszubskiego (in Kashubian), page 4
• Sychta, Bernard (1967) “balka”, in Słownik gwar kaszubskich [Dictionary of Kashubian dialects] (in Polish), volumes 1 (A – Ǵ), Wrocław: Ossolineum, page 16
• Jan Trepczyk (1994) “belka”, in Słownik polsko-kaszubski (in Kashubian), volumes 1–2
• Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “belka”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎^[1]
• “balka”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

Maltese

Root
b-l-k-j
1 term

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbal.ka/

Verb

balka (imperfect jbalki)

1. Alternative form of bbalka: to abate, to calm down

Conjugation

Conjugation of balka
		singular				plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person
perfect	m	balkejt	balkejt	balka		balkejna	balkejtu	balkew
	f			balkiet
imperfect	m	nbalki	tbalki	jbalki		nbalku	tbalku	jbalku
	f			tbalki
imperative			balki				balku

Old Polish

Alternative forms

• balk

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Germanic *balkô

Proto-West Germanic *balkō

Old High German balko

Middle High German balkebor.

Old Polish balka

Borrowed from Middle High German balke. First attested in 1459.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /baːlʲka/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /bɒlʲka/

Noun

balka f

1. (attested in Greater Poland) beam (large piece of timber or iron)
   • 1925 [1459], Kazimierz Kaczmarczyk, editor, Akta radzieckie poznańskie. Acta consularia Posnaniensia, volume I, Poznań, page 294:

     Tramites al. balky

     [Tramites al. balki]

Descendants

• Masurian: bálkä, bálk
• Polish: belka, bałk, belk, bełk, bełka (Middle Polish); balk, balka, bałek, bałka, belek (obsolete)
• Silesian: bŏlka, balek, balk, belek, bŏlek

References

• Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “belka”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
• Brückner, Aleksander (1927) “belka”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna
• 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), “(belka) balk, balka”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

Slovincian

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Germanic *balkô

Proto-West Germanic *balkō

Old High German balko

German Balkenbor.

Slovincian balka

Borrowed from German Balken. Compare Kashubian balka and Polish belka.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbalka/
• Rhymes: -alka
• Syllabification: bal‧ka

Noun

balka f (related adjective balkôwy)

1. beam (large piece of timber or iron)

Further reading

• Lorentz, Friedrich (1908) “bãlkă”, in Slovinzisches Wörterbuch‎^[2] (in German), volume 1, Saint Petersburg: ОРЯС ИАН, page 14