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Robota was involuntary work for feudal lord during middle ages. The class of people required to do such work were called robotnik (in singular).
by dejv 5y ago
Robota was involuntary work for feudal lord during middle ages. The class of people required to do such work were called robotnik (in singular).
- danielam 5y ago"Robotnik" is still used in Polish to mean someone who does manual labor and the like. The pejorative "robol" translates as "prole" as in "proletarian".
- dejv 5y agoWhen Capek created word robot using robotnik as a base, the term was not used for close to 200 years. Czech translation of robotnik in Polish would be delnik.