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ręka

See also: Appendix:Variations of "reka"

Old Polish edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *rǫka. First attested in the 14th century.

Pronunciation edit

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

Noun edit

ręka f (diminutive rączka)

  1. arm; hand (upper limb)
  2. hand (person's action)
  3. arms; possession; power; care, supervision
  4. hand; control
  5. surety (securing the obligation, execution of the sentence, bringing the accused to court)
  6. measure of honey containing six to fifteen gallons

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Descendants edit

  • Masurian: rénkä
  • Polish: ręka
  • Silesian: rynka

References edit

Polish edit

 
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Etymology edit

Inherited from Old Polish ręka.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

ręka f (diminutive rączka, augmentative rączysko)

  1. (anatomy) upper limb
    1. arm
      Synonym: ramię
    2. hand
      Synonyms: łapa, łapina
  2. (countable, soccer) handball (the offence of a player other than the goalkeeper touching the ball with the hand or arm on the field during play)
  3. hand (person that can perform a task, usually one requiring the hands)
  4. hand (person or institution that has the authority or competence or the ability to decide in an issue)
  5. (literary) hand (right to marriage)
  6. (obsolete) style of writing
  7. (obsolete) parcel of land
    Synonym: działka
  8. (obsolete) side (one half (especially left or right) of something or someone)
    Synonym: strona

Declension edit

Declension of ręka
singular plural
nominative ręka ręce
genitive ręki rąk
dative ręce rękom
accusative rękę ręce
instrumental ręką rękami/rękoma
locative ręce rękach/ręku
vocative ręko ręce

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Trivia edit

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), ręka is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 38 times in scientific texts, 15 times in news, 23 times in essays, 184 times in fiction, and 84 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 344 times, making it the 147th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

References edit

  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “ręka”, 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 493

Further reading edit

  • ręka in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • ręka in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “ręka”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  • “RĘKA”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 02.02.2023
  • Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “ręka”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎[2]
  • Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “ręka”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861‎[3]
  • J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1912), “ręka”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎[4] (in Polish), volume 5, Warsaw, page 530
  • ręka in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego
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