Definition of "ogonek" [ogonek]

• : A hook-shaped diacritical mark attached underneath a vowel, typically to indicate nasalization, as in Ąą, Ęę, Įį, Ǫǫ or Ųų. (noun)

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• "In 1979, however, two things happened almost simultaneously – a Polish Pope was elected: John Paul II, whose Polish family name included the barred l – Wojtyła, and the Solidarity movement was constantly in the news, led by a man whose name not only included a barred l, but also an ogonek reverse cedilla under a vowel letter, indicating that it is a nasalised vowel: Lech Wałęsa."
• "Note that the Kazakh-Cyrillic alphabet has two k's, one identical to the Russian k, the other a k with a cédille/ogonek."
• "The name of Czech composer František Ignác Antonín Tůma (1704-1774) makes one immediately think, "What, no umlaut, macron, or ogonek?""