kierownik

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Polish

Etymology

From kierować +‎ -nik.[1][2][3] First attested in 1595.[4] Compare Kashubian czerownik.

Pronunciation

 
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  • Rhymes: -ɔvɲik
  • Syllabification: kie‧row‧nik

Noun

kierownik m pers (female equivalent kierowniczka, related adjective kierowniczy)

  1. manager, head, leader, chief (person managing all or part of a company or institution or leading a team)
  2. (chiefly in the vocative) boss (term of address)
    Synonyms: dyrektor, zarządca
  3. (colloquial, humorous) driver (person operating a vehicle)
    Synonym: kierowca

Declension

Descendants

  • Belarusian: кіраўні́к (kiraŭník)
  • Ukrainian: керівни́к (kerivnýk)

Noun

kierownik m inan

  1. (colloquial) steering wheel
    Synonym: kierownica

Declension

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), kierownik is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 6 times in scientific texts, 29 times in news, 30 times in essays, 19 times in fiction, and 11 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 95 times, making it the 662nd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[5]

References

  1. ^ Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “kierować”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
  2. ^ Mańczak, Witold (2017) “kierować”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN
  3. ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “kierować”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  4. ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “kierownik”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  5. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “kierownik”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 177

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