Old Polish

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Etymology

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From wojewoda +‎ -dztwo. First attested in the 15th century.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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województwo n

  1. (attested in Masovia) voivodeship (administrative division belonging to a voivode)
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Descendants

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  • Polish: województwo
  • Silesian: wojewōdztwo

References

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  • Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “wojewoda”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
  • Mańczak, Witold (2017) “wojewoda”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN
  • 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), “województwo”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

Polish

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Polish województwo. By surface analysis, wojewoda +‎ -ztwo. Compare Kashubian wòjewództwò.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /vɔ.jɛˈvut͡s.tfɔ/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /vɔ.jɛˈvot͡s.tfɔ/
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  • Rhymes: -ut͡stfɔ
  • Syllabification: wo‧je‧wódz‧two

Noun

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województwo n (related adjective wojewódzki)

  1. voivodeship (third-level unit of local government and administration in Poland, above powiat and gmina)
    Coordinate terms: gmina, powiat, sołectwo
    1. (metonymically) voivodeship (people living in such a division)
    2. (government, metonymically) voivodeship office (headquarters of such a district)
    3. (government, metonymically) voivodeship authorities (people in charge of such a district)
    4. (government, metonymically, obsolete) voivodeship (position of a voivode)

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Trivia

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According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), województwo is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 4 times in scientific texts, 81 times in news, 75 times in essays, 2 times in fiction, and 2 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 164 times, making it the 351st most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

Noun

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województwo nvir pl

  1. (collective, obsolete) voivode and his wife

Declension

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References

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  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “województwo”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 674

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