Nawoja is the
Polish feminine name derived from the masculine name
Nawoj [
pl].[1][2] It is better known in its diminutive form Nawojka (pronounced: [naˈvɔi̯ka].[3]
Nawojka, a semi-legendary medieval Polish woman known to have dressed as a boy in order to study at the University of Kraków in the 14th or 15th century
The owner of a 15th-century libellus precum (manuscript prayer book) known as
Nawojka's Prayerbook [
pl]
Nawojka Cieślińska-Lobkowicz, Polish art historian, director of the
Museum of Art in Łódź (1996)
^Aleksandra Cieślikowa, Słownik etymologiczno-motywacyjny staropolskich nazw osobowych. Przy współudziale Janiny Szymowej i Kazimierza Rymuta. T. 1. Odapelatywne nazwy osobowe. Kraków: 2000. ISBN 83-87623-23-7.
^Władysław Wieczorkowski , "Spor de lana caprina, albo jeszcze slow kilka o znaczeniu wyrazu: Nawojka", In: Pismo poswiecone naukom, sztkom i przemyslowi, Biblioteka Warszawska, vol. 4 (LII), 1853,
pp. 186-188
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