Полацк
Belarusian
Alternative forms
- По́лацак (Pólacak), Połacak — dated
- Połack — Łacinka (Belarusian Latin alphabet)
- Polack — 2000–2023 Instruction on transliteration of Belarusian geographical names with letters of Latin script
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈpoɫat͡sk]
Proper noun
По́лацк • (Pólack) m inan (genitive По́лацка, uncountable, relational adjective по́лацкі)
- Polotsk (a city in Vitebsk Oblast, Belarus)
- 1918, Francišak Alachnovič, Bazylišk, Vilnius: Drukarnia M. Kuchty, page 5:
- — Siahońnia woś: pasłaŭ ja, swajho syna s tawarami ŭ Połacak. Niet wiedama, ci žyŭ moj malec ci had jaho dzie źjeŭ!
- "This very day, I sent my son with merchandise to Polotsk. It is unclear whether my boy is still alive or if the serpent has devoured him somewhere!"
Declension
Declension of По́лацк (inan sg-only velar masc-form accent-a)
| singular | |
|---|---|
| nominative | По́лацк Pólack |
| genitive | По́лацка Pólacka |
| dative | По́лацку Pólacku |
| accusative | По́лацк Pólack |
| instrumental | По́лацкам Pólackam |
| locative | По́лацку Pólacku |
References
- “Полацк” in Belarusian–Russian dictionaries and Belarusian dictionaries at slounik.org
- «Полацк» alias “Połack”Łacinka or “Polack”UNGEGN in Valancina Piatroŭna Lemciuhova, editor (2009), Назвы населеных пунктаў Рэспублікі Беларусь: Віцебская вобласць [The names of the settlements of the Republic of Belarus: Viciebsk Oblast] (in Belarusian), Мінск [Minsk]: Тэхналогія [Texnalóhija], →ISBN, page 49