ogonek

ogonek

See also: Ogonek

English

WOTD – 28 December 2006

Etymology

From Polish ogonek (literally “little tail”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈəʊɡənɛk/, /ɒˈɡɒnɛk/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈoʊɡənɛk/

• Audio (US)

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• IPA^(key): /ɔˈɡɔnɛk/ (using the original Polish pronunciation of the word)
• Rhymes: -ɒnɛk

Noun

ogonek (plural ogoneks)

1. (orthography) A hook-shaped diacritical mark (˛) attached underneath a vowel, typically to indicate nasalization, as in Ąą, Ęę, Įį, Ǫǫ or Ųų.

   Hypernym: diacritical hook

Coordinate terms

• cedilla

Translations

diacritical mark

Apache: Chiricahua: please add this translation if you can Western Apache: please add this translation if you can Arabic: please add this translation if you can Belarusian: аго́нэк m (ahónek), хво́сцік m (xvóscik) (colloquial, "little tail") Cayuga: please add this translation if you can Chinese: Mandarin: 反尾形符 (fǎnwěixíngfú) Creek: please add this translation if you can Czech: ocásek m Danish: ogonek c Dogrib: please add this translation if you can Dutch: ogonek (nl) m or f Elfdalian: nevkruok Esperanto: ogoneko Estonian: (please verify) pöördsedii Faroese: krókur m Finnish: ogonek (fi), häntä (fi) French: ogonek (fr) m German: Ogonek n Gwich'in: please add this translation if you can Hebrew: זנב‎ (he) m (zanáv) Hungarian: ogonek, horog (hu), jobb farok, (informal) farkinca Italian: ogonek m, codetta f, uncino (it) m Japanese: オゴネク (ogoneku) Kashubian: please add this translation if you can Korean: 오고넥 (ogonek) Latvian: please add this translation if you can Lithuanian: nosinė f Navajo: please add this translation if you can Northern Tutchone: please add this translation if you can Norwegian: kvist m Old Norse: please add this translation if you can Persian: اگنک‎ (ogonek) Polish: ogonek (pl) m Russian: ого́нэк (ru) m (ogónɛk), хво́стик (ru) m (xvóstik) (colloquial, "little tail") Slovak: nožička f Southern Tutchone: please add this translation if you can Spanish: ogonek m, colita (es) f Swedish: svans (sv) c Ukrainian: ого́нек m (ohónek), хво́стик m (xvóstyk) (colloquial, "little tail") Winnebago: sįįc

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Polish

Etymology

From ogon (“tail”) +‎ -ek (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔˈɡɔ.nɛk/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ɔnɛk
• Syllabification: o‧go‧nek

Noun

ogonek m inan

1. Diminutive of ogon: a little tail
2. (botany) stem, stalk, petiole
3. queue
4. (orthography) ogonek (diacritical mark)
5. (orthography, by extension, nonstandard) any diacritical mark
   • 2000, Kazimierz Ożog, editor, Polonistyka zintegrowana, page 60:

     […] dopisano ogonki, czyli znaki diakrytyczne, by oznaczyć takimi literami np. głoski ż, ś, ć, ę, ą.

     Ogoneks are added, in other words diacritic marks in order to mark them with these letters, e.g. the sounds ż, ś, ć, ę, ą.

   • 2003, Bartek Chaciński, Wypasiony słownik najmłodszej polszczyzny, page 91:

     Ten zawiera wszystkie potrzebne "ogonki", to znaczy ą, ę, ć, ł i tak dalej."

     This one contains all the needed diacritics, that is ą, ę, ć, ł and so forth.

   • 1999 April 23, Andrzej Bigus, Ogolnie syf‎:

     Ponieważ jednak znaczek "ł" nie występuję w iso-8859-1, a że uskuteczniam wymianę pocztową z zagranicznikami, postanowiłem, że nieoficjalnie imię będę pisał tak, jak w pisowni oryginalnej, tj. Tomislav (w dowodzie mam Tomisław), nazwisko zaś okroję z ogonka nad "ń".

     Because as it turns out the letter "ł" doesn't show up in iso-8859-1, and the fact I'm realizing the postal exchange with foreigners, I decided that I'll unoffocially write my name in its original orthography, that is Tomislav (on my ID I have Tomisław), and I cut out the diacritic over "ń" in my last name.

Declension

Declension of ogonek

	singular	plural
nominative	ogonek	ogonki
genitive	ogonka	ogonków
dative	ogonkowi	ogonkom
accusative	ogonek	ogonki
instrumental	ogonkiem	ogonkami
locative	ogonku	ogonkach
vocative	ogonku	ogonki

Derived terms

adjectives

• bezogonkowy
• ogonkowy

 

Descendants

• → English: ogonek

Further reading

• ogonek in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• ogonek in Polish dictionaries at PWN