podstawa
See also: podstawą
Old Polish
editEtymology
editDeverbal from podstawić. First attested in the 14th century. Compare Old Czech podstava.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editpodstawa f
- substance, essence (set of features, what is essential and unchangeable in a subject)
- 1877-1881 [1437], Władysław Wisłocki, editor, Katalog rękopisów Biblioteki Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, number 228, page 87:
- Podstawa intersticium
- [Podstawa intersticium]
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Descendants
editReferences
edit- Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “podstawa”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego (in Polish)
- B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “podstawa”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN
Polish
editEtymology
editInherited from Old Polish podstawa. By surface analysis, deverbal from podstawić. Compare Kashubian pòdstawa and Russian подста́ва (podstáva).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editpodstawa f (related adjective podstawowy)
- base (that upon which something stands)
- (anatomy) base (lower part of a set of bones that make up a specific part of the skeleton)
- (geometry) base (lowest side of a triangle or other polygon)
- (geometry) base (lowest face of a cone, pyramid or other polyhedron laid flat)
- base (element without which something can't exist)
- base (that which may be the beginning, cause or justification of something) [with do (+ genitive) ‘to what’], [with żeby (+ infinitive or past-tense clause) ‘to do what’]
- (econmic) base (specific amount that is the starting point for some financial calculations)
- (in the plural) basics (elementary knowledge in something)
- Synonyms: abc, abecadło, alfabet, elementarz
- (in the plural) basics (assumptions that give rise to some theory, science, concept)
- Synonym: podwaliny
- (Middle Polish) base (that which one may place one's legs)
Declension
editDeclension of podstawa
Derived terms
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- lec u podstaw pf, leżeć u podstaw impf
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Trivia
editAccording to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), podstawa is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 52 times in scientific texts, 19 times in news, 61 times in essays, 6 times in fiction, and 4 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 142 times, making it the 418th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]
References
editFurther reading
edit- podstawa in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- podstawa in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “podstawa”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku
- Paweł Kupiszewski (17.01.2019ṣ) “PODSTAWA”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “podstawa”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “podstawa”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1908), “podstawa”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw, page 419
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- Rhymes:Polish/ava
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