Talk:List of English words of Polish origin

message: So, did "vodka" enter English from Polish or Russian? Who has more evidence for their case. Alexander 007 03:36, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Probably Russian. "Vodka" is an exact transliteration of the Russian "водка". In Polish it is spelled "wódka" (with a W), and pronounced ['vutka] (not ['vodka]). – Kpalion (talk) 10:13, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)

text: Actually, if you consult any English dictionary (e.g. this, this and this one), you'll see that it came to English from Russian. So I'm removing vodka from here. – Kpalion (talk) 03:16, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Vodka]] Debate 

message: Mead is listed as bein g of Polish origin, however this is incorrect.
Main Entry: 1mead 
Pronunciation: 'mEd
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English mede, from Old English medu; akin to Old High German metu mead, Greek methy wine
: a fermented beverage made of water and honey, malt, and yeast 
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I would have to agree that the word 'mead' does not come into English directly from Polish. I believe that it comes from a common Proto-Indo-European root word, probably meaning 'honey'. Mead is by definition made from honey, and the word for honey is some variation of mead in most Slavic languages ('miód' in Polish, 'med' in Russian, and so on). It is also closely related phonetically in other non-Slavic languages from the Northern European area (Baltic languages, Scandinavian languages,see http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=mead). It's also quite delicious.
Highlandschoolofforeignlanguages (talk) 18:49, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Mead from Old English

message: I have capitalized each word as per the general convention in a dictionary entry. --Bhadani 12:52, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Capitalized

message: I rewrote the entire list. Here's what I did:
* Changed a list to a table with four columns: word, meaning, etymology and references. 
* Added references which the article lacked completely so far. Almost all refs are to three online dictionaries: Online Etymology Dictionary, The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language and Merriam-Webster.
* Added several new words which I found in those dictionaries. 
* Removed words which I didn't find. I made an exception for konik or ogonek which I've seen used in English (outside Wikipedia) and which are obviously of Polish origin. I marked them with the  tag.
* Minor changes to the "See also" section and categories.
The lead still needs to be expanded. — Kpalion(talk) 22:30, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  New version of the list 

message: I agree with Kpalion, who suggests merging this page with the English Words of Russian Origin page into an English Words of Slavic Origin page, and for exactly the same reasons as s/he gives.
I've also heard that the word 'quark' came into English via German, in which it is used to refer to a particular type of grainy cottage cheese, and that it in turn came into German from the Polish word 'twaróg', which means precisely that sort of cheese. I lack the linguistic skills to do the necessary research to verify this.
Highlandschoolofforeignlanguages (talk) 18:55, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: According to the American Heritage Dictionary, quark (in the meaning of cheese, not a subatomic particle) comes from Middle High German quarc, from Lower Sorbian twarog, from Old Church Slavonic tvarogъ. So it's apparently of Slavic, but not necessarily Polish origin. Unless someone finds a source which says otherwise. — Kpalion(talk) 12:23, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  quark 

message: Dear fans of the Polish language, what's your reasoning behind the claim that Czech is a word of the Polish origin? It's nice that the Poles still use CZ – you should finally switch to Č and similar signs just like other Slavic languages, I can help you – but the truth to be told, the Czech language was using "cz" and similar combinations of letters up to the reforms by John Huss, too. The new simplified letters such as "č" weren't used in Latin, so the Bohemia-based Latin texts were using "Cz" in "Czechia" throughout the second millennium. In this sense, I believe that we never needed the Poles and the English language simply imported the Latin spelling of Czech which was taken from the Old Czech language. Does it make sense? Lumidek (talk) 18:43, 4 May 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: You are right, . The only thing I'm wondering about now is whether such incorrect etymologies, like Czech, spruce or polka, should be removed outright or should we create an additional section for words often incorrectly regarded as of Polish origin. What do you think? — Kpalion(talk) 17:05, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: I think it's a good idea to divide the list to two sections, defensible and myths - if you really know that you can divide them. Good that you mentioned Polka. It's a word of *Czech* origin  In 1831, French were dancing a Scottish style dance, and the Czech patriots were rooting for the Poles who were just revolting against the Russians, or something like that, so they named the new artificial dance first shown in Prague "polka", meaning a Polish woman. A very political and artificial way to create a dance. Also note that the most famous Czech operetta is a 1913 piece by Oskar Nedbal named "Polish Blood". Lumidek (talk) 18:39, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Czech spelling of Czech 

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message: I thought Hebrew was not yet revived by the time Kielbasa appeared.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.131.110.189 (talk) 23:06, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deriving Kielbasa from Hebrew 

message: Kevlar is a stretch, it was coined by the Americans based on the surname Chwałek as mangled by the Americans ("Kwolek"). Intelligentsia is obviously Russian (that's how "ll" and "ts" ended in it). And so on, and so forth. 89.64.25.240 (talk) 23:03, 22 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  This is bigos 

message: Why is the second half of the article inside of the etymology section for vampire? RealDubbyTubby (talk) 18:19, 25 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Uhhh