See also: wiedzą, wiédzą, and wiédzã

Polish edit

 
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Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈvjɛ.d͡za/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈvjɛ.d͡za/, /ˈvje.d͡za/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛd͡za
  • Syllabification: wie‧dza

Noun edit

wiedza f

  1. knowledge (relevant information that can be recalled from memory; that what one knows) [+ o (locative) = about what]
  2. knowledge (familiarity with something) [+ 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 edit

Derived terms edit

adjectives
nouns

Trivia edit

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 edit

  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]‎[1] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 663

Further reading edit

Silesian edit

Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

wiedza f

  1. knowledge [+ ô (locative) = about what]

Derived terms edit

nouns

Further reading edit

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