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Etymology edit

Deverbal from wynikać.[1] First attested in the 16th century.[2]

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

wynik m inan (related adjective wynikowy)

  1. result, outcome, effect (that which comes from particular actions, event, or process)
    Synonyms: efekt, implikacja, owoc, plon, pokłosie, posiew, rezultat, skutek, żniwo
  2. (sports) result (final score in a game)
  3. (sciences) result (data gathered from tests)
  4. (mathematics) result (final number after calculations)
  5. result (final product, beneficial or tangible effect achieved by effort)
  6. (logic, philosophy) conclusion
    Synonym: wniosek
  7. (obsolete) seedbed; source

Declension edit

Derived terms edit

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Descendants edit

  • Belarusian: вы́нік (výnik)
  • Kashubian: wënik
  • Silesian: wynik

Trivia edit

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), wynik is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 74 times in scientific texts, 66 times in news, 67 times in essays, 7 times in fiction, and 3 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 217 times, making it the 259th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[3]

References edit

  1. ^ Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “wynik”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
  2. ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “wynik”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  3. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “wynik”, 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 703

Further reading edit