polegać
See also: pòlegac
Old Polish
editEtymology
editFrom po- + legać. First attested in the fifteenth century.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editpolegać impf
- to lie (to rest in a horizontal position)
- 1930 [c. 1455], “Deut”, in Ludwik Bernacki, editor, Biblia królowej Zofii (Biblia szaroszpatacka)[1], 28, 54:
- Nyeczisti barzo zavidzecz bødze bratv swemv y zenye, ktorasz polega (cubat) na lonye gego
- [Nieczysty barzo zawidzieć będzie bratu swemu i żenie, ktoraż polega (cubat) na łonie jego]
Related terms
editverbs
- polec pf
Descendants
editReferences
edit- Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “polegać”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (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), “polegać”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN
Polish
editEtymology
editInherited from Old Polish polegać. By surface analysis, po- + legać. Compare Kashubian pòlegac.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /pɔˈlɛ.ɡat͡ɕ/
- (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /pɔˈle.ɡat͡ɕ/
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -ɛɡat͡ɕ
- Syllabification: po‧le‧gać
Verb
editpolegać impf
- (intransitive) to hinge on, to depend on, to come down to, to lie, to consist of, to be based on (to have a cause in) [with na (+ locative) ‘on/in what’]
- (intransitive) to rely, to depend, to trust (to be able to expect a good behavior from someone or something) [with na (+ locative) ‘on/in something’]
- Synonyms: opierać się, liczyć
- (intransitive) to rely, to depend, to trust (to make use of something good) [with na (+ locative) ‘on/in something’]
- (intransitive, obsolete) to lean on (to physically place one's weight against)
- (intransitive, obsolete) to fall, to collapse
- (intransitive, Middle Polish) to lie (to rest in a horizontal position)
- Synonym: leżeć
- (intransitive, Middle Polish) to fall (to die in battle)
Conjugation
editDerived terms
editphrases
Trivia
editAccording to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), polegać is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 30 times in scientific texts, 4 times in news, 24 times in essays, 8 times in fiction, and 9 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 75 times, making it the 860th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]
References
editFurther reading
edit- polegać in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- polegać in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “polegać”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- “POLEGAĆ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 19.03.2019
- Paweł Kupiszewski (19.03.2019) “POLEGAĆ%20SIĘ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “polegać”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “polegać”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1908), “polegać”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw, page 527
- polegać in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego
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