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wiedza

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See also: wiedzą, wiédzą, and wiédzã

Polish

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *věďa. By surface analysis, deverbal from wiedzieć.[1] First attested in 1612.[2]

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -ɛd͡za
  • Syllabification: wie‧dza

Noun

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wiedza f

  1. knowledge (relevant information that can be recalled from memory; that what one knows) [with o (+ locative) ‘about what’]
  2. knowledge (familiarity with something) [with o (+ locative) ‘about what’]
  3. (education, in set phrases) studies (subject focusing on a particular field of study)
  4. (obsolete) news (new information about someone)

Declension

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Trivia

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According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), wiedza is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 27 times in scientific texts, 4 times in news, 27 times in essays, 7 times in fiction, and 3 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 68 times, making it the 956th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “wiedza”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
  2. ^ Paweł Kupiszewski (05.04.2022) “WIEDZA”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
  3. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “wiedza”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 663

Further reading

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Silesian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *věďa, from *věděti. By surface analysis, deverbal from wiedzieć.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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wiedza f

  1. knowledge [with ô (+ locative) ‘about what’]

Derived terms

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Further reading

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  • Henryk Jaroszewicz (2022) “wiedza”, in Zasady pisowni języka śląskiego (in Polish), Siedlce: Wydawnictwo Naukowe IKR[i]BL, page 150