paliwo

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paliwo

Etymology edit

From palić +‎ -iwo. Calque of French combustible and German Brennstoff, coined with the widespread use of steam machines.^[1] First attested in 1783.^[2]

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /paˈli.vɔ/
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Rhymes: -ivɔ
Syllabification: pa‧li‧wo

Noun edit

paliwo n (related adjective paliwowy)

fuel, propellant (substance consumed to provide energy through combustion, or through chemical or nuclear reaction)
(obsolete, humorous) tobacco (leaves of Nicotiana tabacum and some other species cultivated and harvested to make cigarettes, cigars, snuff, for smoking in pipes or for chewing)
Synonym: tytoń

Declension edit

Declension of paliwo

	singular	plural
nominative	paliwo	paliwa
genitive	paliwa	paliw
dative	paliwu	paliwom
accusative	paliwo	paliwa
instrumental	paliwem	paliwami
locative	paliwie	paliwach
vocative	paliwo	paliwa

Derived terms edit

nouns

Descendants edit

→ Kashubian: palëwò

Trivia edit

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), paliwo is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 41 times in scientific texts, 5 times in news, 10 times in essays, 1 time in fiction, and 2 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 59 times, making it the 1094th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.^[3]

References edit

^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “paliwo”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
^ Johann Wenzel Pol (1783) Neuverbesserte Böhmische Grammatik, mit all erforderlichen tüchtigen Grundsätzen, gut, und verläßlicher Rechtschreibung, Ableitung, und zufolge dieser verschiedener Bedeutung der böhmischen Wörter bewehrt...‎^[1] (in German), Trattner, page 316
^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “paliwo”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎^[2] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 353