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Polish

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “From stykać, like trafić > traf?”)

Pronunciation

Noun

stycka f

  1. (Eastern Kraków, Proszowice) misfortune; accident

Further reading

  • Hieronim Łopaciński (1892), “stycka”, 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 251
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Swedish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Swedish stykkia, from Proto-Germanic *stukkiją. Cognate of Danish stykke.

Verb

stycka (present styckar, preterite styckade, supine styckat, imperative stycka)

  1. (sometimes with upp) to cut up (usually a slaughtered animal)
  2. (sometimes with upp) to cut up, to dismember (a murdered human)
  3. (sometimes with a particle like av or upp) to segregate off, to partition (a property or the like)

Conjugation

More information active, passive ...

1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

Derived terms

References

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