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^ Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “chwila”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
^ Sławski, Franciszek (1958-1965) “chwila”, in Jan Safarewicz, Andrzej Siudut, editors, Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), Kraków: Towarzystwo Miłośników Języka Polskiego
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), chwila is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 46 times in scientific texts, 35 times in news, 47 times in essays, 181 times in fiction, and 97 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 406 times, making it the 116th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.
^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “chwila”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 50
Further reading
chwila in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “chwila, chfila”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
“CHWILA”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 07.05.2010