woleć
Old Polish
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editInherited from Proto-Slavic *voliti with a shift of -ić to -eć. First attested in the 15th century.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editwoleć impf
- to prefer (to like better)
- 1930 [c. 1455], “Deut”, in Ludwik Bernacki, editor, Biblia królowej Zofii (Biblia szaroszpatacka)[1], 30, 19:
- Przetosz volisz[li] ziwot (elige... vitam), aby y ti ziw byl, y synowye twogi
- [Przetoż woliż[li] żywot (elige... vitam), aby i ty żyw był, i synowie twoji]
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Descendants
editReferences
edit- Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “woleć”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
- Mańczak, Witold (2017) “woleć”, 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), “woleć”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN
Polish
editEtymology
editInherited from Old Polish woleć. Cognate to German wählen.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editwoleć impf
- (intransitive) to prefer (to be in the habit of choosing something rather than something else; to favor; to like better) [with od (+ genitive) or niz (+ nominative) ‘over whom/what’]
- Synonym: preferować
- Wolisz brunetki czy blondynki? ― Do you prefer brunettes or blondes? [with infinitive ‘to do what’; or with niż (+ infinitive) ‘than doing what’]
- (auxiliary, intransitive) to prefer; rather (to want to do something or for something to happen)
- Wolę jeździć na rowerze niż pływać. ― I prefer cycling to swimming.
- Wolałbym umrzeć. ― I would rather/prefer to die.
Conjugation
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adverb
nouns
Trivia
editAccording to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), woleć is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 2 times in scientific texts, 1 time in news, 5 times in essays, 16 times in fiction, and 46 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 70 times, making it the 927th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]
References
editFurther reading
edit- woleć in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- woleć in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “woleć”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- “WOLEĆ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 29.06.2023
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “woleć”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “woleć”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1919), “woleć”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 7, Warsaw, page 687
- woleć in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego
Silesian
editEtymology
editInherited from Old Polish woleć.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editwoleć impf
- (intransitive) to prefer (to like better)
Conjugation
editFurther reading
edit- woleć in silling.org
- Henryk Jaroszewicz (2022) “woleć”, in Zasady pisowni języka śląskiego (in Polish), Siedlce: Wydawnictwo Naukowe IKR[i]BL, page 151
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