rańtuch
Polish
Alternative forms
- rajtuch (Eastern Lublin, Chełm Voivodeship)
Etymology
Borrowed from German Regentuch.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈraɲ.tux/
- (Masovia):
- (Near Masovian) IPA(key): /ˈraɲ.tux/
- (Lesser Poland):
- (Przemyśl) IPA(key): [ˈraɲ.tux]
- Rhymes: -aɲtux
- Syllabification: rań‧tuch
Noun
rańtuch m inan
- (archaic) lace shawl (shawl or wrap made of homespun canvas decorated with a woven or embroidered trail or of tulle decorated with embroidery or lace)
- (obsolete or dialectal, Przemyśl) rural shawl; headscarf (quadrangular piece of linen thrown over the head; part of the oldest rural costume used by men until the 15th century, later only by women)
- (obsolete) noble shawl (large plaid or striped shawl, used by noblewomen in the 16th and 17th centuries, later homespun, used by rural women)
- (Near Masovian, Wierzchowiny, Radzyń Podlaski County) bridal wrap (cloth used during a wedding to wrap the bride)
Declension
Declension of rańtuch
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | rańtuch | rańtuchy |
| genitive | rańtucha | rańtuchów |
| dative | rańtuchowi | rańtuchom |
| accusative | rańtuch | rańtuchy |
| instrumental | rańtuchem | rańtuchami |
| locative | rańtuchu | rańtuchach |
| vocative | rańtuchu | rańtuchy |
Further reading
- rańtuch in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Aleksander Saloni (1908), “rańtuch”, in “Lud rzeszowski”, in Materyały Antropologiczno-Archeologiczne i Etnograficzne (in Polish), volume 10, Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, page 340
- Hieronim Łopaciński (1892), “rańtuch”, 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 270