Polish edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *orbotьničь. By surface analysis, robotnik +‎ -y. First attested in 1549.[1][2]

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /rɔ.bɔtˈɲi.t͡ʂɨ/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /rɔ.bɔtˈɲi.t͡ʂɨ/
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  • Rhymes: -it͡ʂɨ
  • Syllabification: ro‧bot‧ni‧czy

Adjective edit

robotniczy (not comparable, no derived adverb)

  1. (relational) worker, working
    Synonyms: proletariacki, robociarski

Declension edit

Derived terms edit

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Trivia edit

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), robotniczy is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 6 times in scientific texts, 30 times in news, 74 times in essays, 2 times in fiction, and 1 time in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 113 times, making it the 544th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[3]

References edit

  1. ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “robotniczy”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  2. ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “robotniczy”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  3. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “robotniczy”, 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 494

Further reading edit