wybór
See also: wybōr
Old Polish
editEtymology
editDeverbal from wybrać. First attested in 1495. Compare Old Czech výbor and Old Slovak výbor.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editwybór m animacy unattested
- (attested in Greater Poland) choice (something highly sought or of high quality)
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editReferences
edit- Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “wybór”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
- Mańczak, Witold (2017) “wybór”, 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), “wybór”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN
Polish
editEtymology
editInherited from Old Polish wybór. By surface analysis, deverbal from wybrać. Compare Czech výbor, Kashubian wëbór, and Russian вы́бор (výbor).
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ˈvɨ.bur/
- (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈvɨ.bor/
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -ɨbur
- Syllabification: wy‧bór
Noun
editwybór m inan
- choice (act of choosing; option; a decision; an opportunity to choose or select something) [with genitive ‘of what’; or with spośród (+ genitive) ‘from among what’; or with między (+ instrumental) ‘between what’]
- Nie poszedłem tam z wyboru. ― I didn't go there by choice.
- choice (that which was chosen)
- choice, selection (collection of things to choose from)
- Synonym: dobór
- (literature) selection (collection of works of literature or art put together because of certain common characteristics)
- (politics) vote, choice, selection (act or instance of participating in selecting someone for a particular role, typically in government) [with na (+ accusative) ‘for what position’]
- Synonym: obiór
- (in the plural, politics) election (process of choosing a new leader or representatives)
- Synonym: elekcja
- (obsolete, military) conscription, recruitment
- (obsolete) preparation (act of preparing oneself)
- Synonym: przygotowanie się
- (obsolete) choice (best of something)
Declension
editDeclension of wybór
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- nie pozostawić wyboru pf, nie pozostawiać wyboru impf
- wybór padł pf, wybór pada impf
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Trivia
editAccording to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), wybór is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 13 times in scientific texts, 40 times in news, 32 times in essays, 7 times in fiction, and 5 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 97 times, making it the 651st most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]
References
editFurther reading
edit- wybór in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- wybory in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- wybór in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “wybór”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- “WYBÓR”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 26.06.2009
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “wybór”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “wybór”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1919), “wybór”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 7, Warsaw, page 804
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