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Polish Occupations
     akuszerka: midwife 
     chal~upnik: farmer with a small cottage but no land 
     dziedzic: heir (this is seen as an occupation for a nobleman) 
     dzierz|awca: tenant, lease-holder 
     garncarz: potter 
     gospodarz: farmer 
     ka~tnik: laborer, a poor person who lived in someone else's cottage 
     kmiec~: a self-supporting farmer 
     komornik, kumornik: a farmer who owned no land or cottage and lived in              someone else's house 
     ksia~dz, ks.: priest, Reverend Father 
     kupiec: merchant 
     les~nik: woodsman, forester 
     l~owca: hunter 
     luz~ny: vagabond 
     mys~liwy: hunter 
     nie-szlachcic: a commoner 
     oberz|ysta: innkeeper 
     ogrodnik: farmer with a house and garden but no cropland 
     opatrzny: poor burgher 
     operarzy: laborer 
     pasterz: shepherd 
     piekarz: baker 
     pol~oz|na: midwife 
     po~l~rolnik: farmer with a house, farm buildings, animals, and cropland 
     pracowity: peasant 
     rataj: serf dependent on the village lord 
     rolnik: farmer 
     sklepikarz: shopkeeper 
     skryba: scribe, clerk 
     sl~awetny: a rich burgher in a small town or an average resident of a big city 
     sol~tys, szol~tys: administrator of a village 
     szambelan: chamberlain 
     szeryf: sheriff 
     szewc: shoemaker 
     szlachic: nobleman 
     s~winiopas: swineherd 
     tkacz: weaver 
     uczciwy: village craftsman, inn owner 
     ul~an: a Polish cavalryman with a lance 
     unrodzony: nobleman possessing land 
     wojak: soldier 
     wymienca: trader 
     wyrobnik: laborer 
     wyrobnik rolny: farm hand 
     zacny: wealthiest merchant 
     zagrodnik: farmer who owned a house, farm buildings, animals, and farmed a small plot of land 
     zagrodnik z roli: a farmer who owned a house, farm buildings, animals, and farmed a medium-sized plot of land 
     z|ol~nierz: soldier 
 

 
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