wół

See also: wol, woł, and wól

Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish wół, from Proto-Slavic *volъ.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /vuw/
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Rhymes: -uw
Syllabification: wół

Noun

wół m anim (diminutive wołek)

ox, steer

Usage notes

This noun is one of the only masculine animate nouns that end in -u in the genitive singular (almost all others end in -a in that inflectional category).

Declension

Declension of wół

	singular	plural
nominative	wół	woły
genitive	wołu	wołów
dative	wołowi	wołom
accusative	wołu	woły
instrumental	wołem	wołami
locative	wole	wołach
vocative	wole	woły

Derived terms

woli
wołowina
wołowy

wół