Old Polish edit

Etymology edit

From przypaść +‎ -ek. First attested in 1487. Compare Old Czech případek.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /pr̝ipaːdɛk/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /pr̝ipɒdɛk/

Noun edit

przypadek m ?

  1. that what someone may be entitled to in addition to the inheritance share
    • 1856-1870 [1487], Antoni Zygmunt Helcel, editor, Starodawne Prawa Polskiego Pomniki, volume IX, number 973:
      Vendidit (sc. Zophia) partem suam totam aduocacie... cum omnibus prouentibus, censibus, obuencionibus, cessionibus al. z przypadky ac emolimentis
      [Vendidit (sc. Zofija) partem suam totam aduocacie... cum omnibus prouentibus, censibus, obuencionibus, cessionibus al. z przypadki ac emolimentis]

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Descendants edit

  • Masurian: prżipádek
  • Polish: przypadek
  • Silesian: przipŏdek

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Etymology edit

Inherited from Old Polish przypadek. By surface analysis, przypadać +‎ -ek. Sense 1 is a semantic loan from Latin cāsus, which displaced spadek.[1][2] Compare Czech případek, Kashubian przëpôdk, and Russian припа́док (pripádok). Further compare Hungarian eset.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /pʂɨˈpa.dɛk/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /pʂɨˈpɒ.dɛk/, /pr̝ɨˈpɒ.dɛk/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -adɛk
  • Syllabification: przy‧pa‧dek

Noun edit

przypadek m inan (abbreviation przyp.)

  1. chance, accident; coincidence (situation which occurred that could not have been predicted)
    Synonyms: traf, zbieg okoliczności
  2. event, instance, case (something that happened)
    Synonyms: wydarzenie, wypadek
    w takim przypadkuin that case
  3. (medicine) case (instance of a specific condition or set of symptoms)
    Synonyms: kazus, syndrom
  4. (medicine) case (person representing said condition or set of symptoms)
  5. (obsolete) adventure; event
  6. (obsolete, chiefly in the plural) facts; events (that which occurred in someone's life)
  7. (Middle Polish) characteristic (that which defines a person's features or behaviors)
  8. (Middle Polish) shift (established order of performing duties)
    Synonym: zmiana
  9. (Middle Polish) fate
    Synonyms: los, przeznaczenie
  10. (Middle Polish) assets, income (that which belongs to someone)
  11. (Middle Polish) tribute, tax
  12. (Middle Polish) will; regulations, commandments (that what someone wants)
  13. (Middle Polish) property (that which belongs to or is located in a particular area)
  14. (Middle Polish, of land) addition, adjacency

Declension edit

Noun edit

przypadek m inan

  1. (grammar) case

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Trivia edit

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), przypadek is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 90 times in scientific texts, 6 times in news, 30 times in essays, 12 times in fiction, and 13 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 151 times, making it the 380th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[3]

References edit

  1. ^ Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “przypadek”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
  2. ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “przypadek 2”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  3. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “przypadek”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎[1] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 470

Further reading edit

  • przypadek in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • przypadek in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “przypadek”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  • PRZYPADEK”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 2020 December 15
  • Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “przypadek”, in Słownik języka polskiego[2]
  • Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “przypadek”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861[3]
  • J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1912), “przypadek”, in Słownik języka polskiego[4] (in Polish), volume 5, Warsaw, page 335
  • przypadek in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego