Elamur LocationsPuck
A settlement in Poland.
English name
Puck — Current official Polish Latin-script name, retained in English with its local spelling; no Cyrillic romanization is required.
Other forms in use:
- Putzig — German historical name used in English accounts of the Baltic coast and the former Prussian town.
- Pùck — Kashubian local name quoted in English references.
- Pùckò — Another Kashubian local form recorded in English reference material.
- Pëck — Kashubian variant listed in English reference material.
- Pucko — Diacritic-free typing or indexing form of Pùckò for English retrieval; not a separate official name. Independent prose frequency is unverified.
- Peck — Diacritic-free typing or indexing form of Pëck for English retrieval; not a separate official name. Independent prose frequency is unverified.
French name
Puck — Same form as in English; retained in French reference usage, without a separate French exonym.
Other forms in use:
- Putzig — German historical name in French accounts of the Baltic coast.
- Pùck — Kashubian name explicitly given in the French reference entry.
About
Puck is a port town on Puck Bay in Poland's Kashubian region. It has a long fishing and maritime history and was the setting for Poland's symbolic wedding to the sea after the First World War.
Notes
Puck is the Kashubian coastal town. Putzig is historical; there is no reason to turn the local Polish Latin spelling into an English phonetic transcription. Reference pages checked 2026-11-15: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puck,_Poland ; https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puck_(Pologne).
Identifiers: Wikidata Q628962 · JSON
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