Old Polish edit

Etymology edit

From istnąć +‎ -enie. First attested in the end of the 15th century.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /istɲɛɲɛː/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /istɲɛɲe/

Noun edit

istnienie n

  1. essence (what is essential and main in being)
    • 1874-1891 [End of the 15th century], Rozprawy i Sprawozdania z Posiedzeń Wydziału Filologicznego Akademii Umiejętności, volume XLVII, page 350:
      Ystnye[nie] essentiam
      [Istnie[nie] essentiam]

References edit

Polish edit

 
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Etymology edit

From istnieć +‎ -enie.[1][2] First attested in 1807.[3] Compare Kashubian jistnienié and Old Polish istnienie.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /istˈɲɛ.ɲɛ/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛɲɛ
  • Syllabification: ist‧nie‧nie

Noun edit

istnienie n

  1. (uncountable) verbal noun of istnieć
  2. (countable) existence (the state of being, existing, or occurring)
    Synonym: byt

Declension edit

Trivia edit

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), istnienie is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 23 times in scientific texts, 7 times in news, 23 times in essays, 4 times in fiction, and 3 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 60 times, making it the 1080th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[4]

References edit

  1. ^ Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “istny”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
  2. ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “istnienie”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  3. ^ Gazeta Warszawska (in Polish), number 80, 1807 October 6, page 1226
  4. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “istnienie”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎[1] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 157

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