zacząć
See also: zacząc
Old Polish
editEtymology
editInherited from Proto-Slavic *začęti. First attested in c. 1500.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editzacząć pf (imperfective zaczynać)
- (attested in Greater Poland) to start, to begin
- 1979 [c. 1500], Ladislas of Gielniów, “Rzepka Wojciech R. Pieśni Władysława z Gielniowa nowo odnalezione”, in Wiesław Wydra, editor, Studia Polonistyczne, volume 6, numbers 167-201, Gniezno, page 175:
- Syn mathuchny swey duszą wszyal a szlothkye pyenye yest *zaczchąl
- [Syn matuchny swej duszę wziął a słodkie pienie jest zacz[ch]ął]
- The mother's son took his soul and the sweet singing has begun.
Related terms
editnoun
Descendants
editReferences
edit- Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “zacząć”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →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), “zacząć”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN
Polish
editEtymology
editInherited from Old Polish zacząć.
Pronunciation
editAudio 1; “zacząć”: (file) Audio 2; “zacząć się”: (file) - Rhymes: -at͡ʂɔɲt͡ɕ
- Syllabification: za‧cząć
Verb
editzacząć pf (imperfective zaczynać)
- (transitive) to start, to begin (to do something previously not done) [with infinitive ‘to do what’]
- (transitive) to start (to enter the first stages of something) [with infinitive ‘to do what’]
- Synonym: rozpocząć
- (transitive) to begin (to do something as the first of a series of actions) [with instrumental ‘with what’; or with od (+ genitive) ‘from what’]
- Synonym: rozpocząć
- (intransitive) to begin, to start (to take on a particular profession) [with jako (+ nominative) ‘as what’ and w (+ locative) ‘in what field’]
- Synonym: rozpocząć
- (transitive) to begin (to open and start using something previously unused)
- (intransitive) to begin (to say something at first and continue speaking afterwards) [with o (+ locative) ‘about what’]
- Synonym: rozpocząć
- (intransitive) to begin, to start (to gain a particular ability) [with infinitive ‘to do what’]
- zacząć chodzić ― to start walking
- (intransitive) to start (to be the cause of conflict)
- Ale to on zaczął! ― But he started it!
- (intransitive, obsolete) to enter pregnancy, to become pregnant
- Synonym: zajść w ciążę
- (reflexive with się) to start, to begin (of events, etc., to have a beginning; to be initiated)
- (reflexive with się) to start, to begin (of places, etc., to have an edge; to be first seen somewhere)
- (reflexive with się) to start, to begin (of periods, etc., to have the initial phase and continue to last)
- (reflexive with się) to start, to begin (to be the first of a collection of events) [with instrumental ‘with what’; or with od (+ genitive) ‘from what’; or with z (+ instrumental) ‘with what’]
Conjugation
editDerived terms
editverbs
- zacząć od pieca pf, zaczynać od pieca impf
- zaczęły się schody pf, zaczynają się schody impf
Trivia
editAccording to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), zacząć is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 33 times in scientific texts, 12 times in news, 14 times in essays, 93 times in fiction, and 48 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 200 times, making it the 274th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]
References
editFurther reading
edit- zacząć in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- zacząć in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “zacząć”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku
- Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “zacząć się”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku
- “ACZĄĆ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku, 08.03.2016
- “ZACZĄĆ%20SIĘ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku, 11.01.2010
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “zacząć”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “zacząć”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1927), “zacząć”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 8, Warsaw, page 54
- M. Arcta Słownik Staropolski/Zacząć on the Polish Wikisource.Wikisource pl
- zacząć in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego
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