grzebielucha

See also: Grzebielucha

Polish

Etymology

From grzebać +‎ -ucha, as this bird digs burrows in sand on coasts.

Pronunciation

Noun

grzebielucha f

  1. (Central Greater Poland, Poznań) synonym of brzegówka (“sand martin”)

Further reading

  • Oskar Kolberg (1877) “grzebielucha”, in “Rzecz o mowie ludu wielkopolskiego”, in Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowéj (in Polish), volume 1, III (Materyjały etnologiczne), page 18
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