פּאָלקע 1
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ETYMOLOGY

Polish pałka.
Beider suggests that the word was borrowed from Old Polish ✱pa:lka, before the 16th c., when the first vowel was long /aː/ (perhaps the vowel was lengthened in a stressed syllable before /l/ and a second consonant). The vowel merged with A₂ and had the corresponding different realizations in Yiddish dialects (NEY polke / SEY pulke).

CENTRAL

Unterland (East Transcarpathian)

púʎkʲə {ETCP, Sîg Felső Szek, 47223}

pʊɫkʲə, pʊ́ʎkʲɩ {POLAND, Wolbrom, 50196}

puʎ-kə {POLAND, Warsaw, 52211}

NORTHEASTERN

Lithuania

polkʲe {LITHUANIA, Vilnius, 54257}