wniosek

Polish edit

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

wniosek

Etymology edit

From wnieść +‎ -ek.^[1]^[2] First attested in 1656–1688.^[3] Compare Silesian wzniōsek and Ukrainian вне́сок (vnésok).

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /ˈvɲɔ.sɛk/
(Middle Polish) IPA^(key): /ˈvɲɔ.sɛk/
Audio (file)
Rhymes: -ɔsɛk
Syllabification: wnio‧sek

Noun edit

wniosek m inan

conclusion, outcome
Synonym: konkluzja
request, application [+ o (accusative) = for what]
Synonym: aplikacja
proposal
Synonym: propozycja
(obsolete) bride price, dower
Synonyms: posag, wiano
(obsolete) that which is carried in; contribution

Declension edit

Declension of wniosek

	singular	plural
nominative	wniosek	wnioski
genitive	wniosku	wniosków
dative	wnioskowi	wnioskom
accusative	wniosek	wnioski
instrumental	wnioskiem	wnioskami
locative	wniosku	wnioskach
vocative	wniosku	wnioski

Derived terms edit

nouns

Descendants edit

→ Kashubian: wniosk (calque)

Trivia edit

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), wniosek is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 25 times in scientific texts, 38 times in news, 72 times in essays, 10 times in fiction, and 3 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 148 times, making it the 390th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.^[4]

References edit

^ Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “wniosek”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
^ Mańczak, Witold (2017) “wniosek”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN
^ Paweł Kupiszewski (20.04.2023) “WNIOSEK”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “wniosek”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎^[1] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 673