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Raków

Raków comes from Polish Raków, from rak ‘crayfish’, and ultimately from Proto-Slavic *ràkъ.

  1. Proto-Slavicc. 400–900 CE*ràkъ‘crayfish’reconstructed
  2. Old Polishmodernrak
  3. Polishmodernsame form‘crayfish’
  4. Polish, derivedmodernRaków
  5. Englishtodaysame form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Slavicc. 400–900 CE*ràkъ‘crayfish’reconstructed
  2. Old Polishmodernrak
  3. Polishmodernsame form‘crayfish’
  4. Polish, derivedmodernRaków
  5. Englishtodaysame form

Every English word from Proto-Slavic *ràkъ

Today it means

name A settlement founded in the Sandomierz Voivodeship of Lesser Poland in 1569 as the centre of the Polish Brethren, the site of the Racovian Academy 1602–1638 and of the publication of the Racovian Catechism in 1605; formerly a town until 1869, it is now a village of the Republic of Poland and the seat of the gmina wiejska (rural commune) of the same name.

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