bortnica

== Polish == === Etymology === (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -it͡sa Syllabification: bort‧ni‧ca === Noun === bortnica f toeboard (low board around the edge of a raised platform to prevent workers from accidentally falling) (Central Greater Poland) side (wall of a ditch or trench) (Near Masovian, milling) narrow, light wooden strip on a windmill's shaft ==== Declension ==== === Further reading === Władysław Matlakowski (1891), “bortnica”, in “Zbiór wyrazów ludowych dawnej ziemi czerskiej”, in Sprawozdania Komisyi Językowej Akademii Umiejętności‎[1], volume 4, Krakow: Drukarnia Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, page 363 Oskar Kolberg (1877), “bortnica”, in “Rzecz o mowie ludu wielkopolskiego”, in Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowéj (in Polish), volume 1, III (Materyjały etnologiczne), page 17