szef
See also: széf
Kashubian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]szef m pers (female equivalent szefinô)
- (colloquial) boss (person in charge)
- Synonym: przédnik
Further reading
[edit]- Jan Trepczyk (1994) “szef”, in Słownik polsko-kaszubski (in Kashubian), volumes 1–2
- Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “szef”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi[2]
- “szef”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022
Polish
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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French chef.[1][2] First attested in 1747–1756.[3]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]szef m pers (female equivalent szefowa, diminutive szefunio or szefuńcio, related adjective szefowski)
Declension
[edit]Declension of szef
Derived terms
[edit]nouns
verbs
- szefować impf
Descendants
[edit]- → Kashubian: szef
Trivia
[edit]According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), szef is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 1 time in scientific texts, 33 times in news, 2 times in essays, 12 times in fiction, and 26 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 76 times, making it the 851st most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Stanisław Dubisz, editor (2003), “szef”, in Uniwersalny słownik języka polskiego [Universal dictionary of the Polish language][1] (in Polish), volumes 1-4, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN SA, →ISBN
- ^ Witold Doroszewski, editor (1958–1969), “szef”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), Warszawa: PWN
- ^ Hieronim Florian Radziwiłł (1998) [1747-1756] Hieronima Floriana Radziwiłła diariusze i pisma różne (in Polish), page 153: “Trzeci brat książąt spomnianych imienia mego - książę JM Stanisław, generałmajor wojsk litewskich i szef rejmentu królewskiego, kawaler de omni scibili, tu przybył.”
- ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “szef”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 577
Further reading
[edit]- szef in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- szefie in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- szef in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “szef”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1915), “szef”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 6, Warsaw, page 599
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- csb:Leaders
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