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Lechus
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Latin
Etymology
la zlw-mpl Lech + la -us<id:Latinization> m.
Pronunciation
Lechus
Proper noun
Lechus<2> m
la male Polish
la Icones et vitae principum ac regum Poloniae omnium 1626 Salomon Neugebauer 3 Posteriate Lechi deficiente, Poloni comitiis Gnesnae de Repub.stabilienda habiis duodecim ex Procerum numero secundum totidem Palatinatus seu Provincias deligunt, quos Palatinos seu Woievodas, hoc est, duces belli lingua patria nominarunt, illisq; rerum summam committunt. Cracus. Later, when Lech failed, the Poles, having held an assembly at Gnesna to establish a republic, elected twelve nobles from the same number of Palatinates or Provinces, whom they named Palatines or Voivodes, that is, war leaders in their native language, and entrusted the sum of their affairs to them.
Declension
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