kolanowych

Kolanowych is not a standalone term in Polish, but the genitive plural form of the adjective kolanowy, meaning knee-related or pertaining to the knee. The base noun is kolano (knee), and the adjective kolanowy describes features connected with the knee. In Polish, adjectives decline to agree with the gender, number, and case of the nouns they modify, so kolanowy appears in various forms, including kolanowych when used with plural nouns in the genitive case.

In practice, kolanowych occurs mainly in medical, anatomical, and sports contexts. It marks relationships to the knee in phrases such as stawów kolanowych (knee joints), więzadeł kolanowych (knee ligaments), or urazy stawów kolanowych (injuries of the knee joints). For example, medical reports may describe “ból stawów kolanowych” (pain of the knee joints) or “uszkodzenia więzadeł kolanowych” (damages to the knee ligaments), where kolanowych appears as the genitive plural form of kolanowy.

Etymology-wise, kolanowy derives from kolano (knee) with the adjectival suffix -owy, forming a modifier meaning knee-related. The genitive plural ending -owych reflects standard Polish agreement rules for adjectives describing plural nouns in the genitive case.

While kolanowych is common in professional texts, it is not a separate concept; rather, it is the grammatical form used to express knee-related relations in multi-noun phrases. See also kolano, staw kolanowy, więzadła kolanowe.