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See also: pòlegac
Old Polish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From po- + legać. First attested in the fifteenth century.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]polegać impf
- to lie (to rest in a horizontal position)
- 1930 [c. 1455], “Deut”, in Ludwik Bernacki, editor, Biblia królowej Zofii (Biblia szaroszpatacka)[1], 28, 54:
- Nyeczisti barzo zavidzecz bødze bratv swemv y zenye, ktorasz polega (cubat) na lonye gego
- [Nieczysty barzo zawidzieć będzie bratu swemu i żenie, ktoraż polega (cubat) na łonie jego]
Related terms
[edit]verbs
- polec pf
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “polegać”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
- B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “polegać”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN
Polish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Polish polegać. By surface analysis, po- + legać. Compare Kashubian pòlegac.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]polegać impf
- (intransitive) to hinge on, to depend on, to come down to, to lie, to consist of, to be based on (to have a cause in) [with na (+ locative) ‘on/in what’]
- (intransitive) to rely, to depend, to trust (to be able to expect a good behavior from someone or something) [with na (+ locative) ‘on/in something’]
- Synonyms: opierać się, liczyć
- (intransitive) to rely, to depend, to trust (to make use of something good) [with na (+ locative) ‘on/in something’]
- (intransitive, obsolete) to lean on (to physically place one's weight against)
- (intransitive, obsolete) to fall, to collapse
- (intransitive, Middle Polish) to lie (to rest in a horizontal position)
- Synonym: leżeć
- (intransitive, Middle Polish) to fall (to die in battle)
Conjugation
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[edit]phrases
Trivia
[edit]According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), polegać is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 30 times in scientific texts, 4 times in news, 24 times in essays, 8 times in fiction, and 9 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 75 times, making it the 860th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]
References
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- polegać in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- polegać in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “polegać”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- “POLEGAĆ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 19.03.2019
- Paweł Kupiszewski (19.03.2019) “POLEGAĆ%20SIĘ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “polegać”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “polegać”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1908), “polegać”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw, page 527
- polegać in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego
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