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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

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udział m inan (related adjective udziałowy)

  1. (uncountable) participation (the act of participating, of taking part in something) [with w (+ locative) ‘in what’]
    Synonyms: uczestnictwo, wspólnictwo, partycypacja, współudział, współuczestnictwo
  2. (uncountable, literary) role, part; input, contribution (expressed as a certain amount, which is part of something larger) [with w (+ locative) ‘in what’]
  3. (economics) share, stock (financial instrument) [with w (+ locative) ‘in what’]
    Synonym: wkład
  4. (obsolete) comeuppance; reward or punishment (that what one receives)
  5. (obsolete) division of property (part of mobile or immobile owned goods)
    Synonym: dział
  6. (obsolete) division (that which has been separated from the rest)
  7. (obsolete) interest; sympathy
  8. (obsolete, military) division (formation composed of several regiments or brigades)
    Synonym: dywizja

Declension

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The locative singular form udziele is obsolete.

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Belarusian: удзе́л (udzjél) (calque)
  • Kashubian: ùdzél (calque)

Trivia

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According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), udział is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 25 times in scientific texts, 140 times in news, 60 times in essays, 9 times in fiction, and 3 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 237 times, making it the 231st most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “udział”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  2. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “udział”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 624

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