Nawoja

Nawoja is the Polish feminine name derived from the masculine name Nawoj.[1][2] A better known is its diminutive form Nawojka (pronounced: [naˈvɔi̯ka].[3]

Notable persons with the name include:

  • Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk, Polish writer and activist
  • 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
  • Nawojka Cieślińska-Lobkowicz, Polish art historian, director of the Museum of Art in Łódź (1996)

References
  1. Józef Bubak, Księga naszych imion. Wrocław, Warszawa, Kraków: Ossolineum, 1993. ISBN 83-04-03860-9.
  2. 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.
  3. 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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