książka

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See also: książką

Old Polish

Etymology

From księgi +‎ -ka. First attested in the fifteenth century.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /kɕɑ̃ʃʲka/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /kɕɑ̃ʃʲka/

Noun

książka f

  1. book (collection of sheets of paper bound together to hinge at one edge, containing printed or written material, pictures, etc.)
    • Fifteenth century, Glosy z rkpsu Biblioteki Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego o sygn. Q I V 126, pom inięte przez wydawcę w PF III 281-292, page 290:
      Finito hoc libro, s dokonczenya thy k[s]yanszki, sit laus et gloria Christo
      [Finito hoc libro, z dokończenia ty k[s]iążki, sit laus et gloria Christo]
  2. (in the plural) oxeye daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare)
    • 1900 [1472], Józef Rostafiński, editor, Symbola ad historiam naturalem medii aevi = Średniowieczna historya naturalna w Polsce. Ps 2, number 1607:
      Xøzki coronaria maior
      [Książki coronaria maior]

Descendants

  • Polish: książka
  • Silesian: ksiōnżka

References

  • 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), “(S) książka”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →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), “książki”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

Polish

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Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish książka. By surface analysis, księga +‎ -ka.

Pronunciation

 
  • IPA(key): /ˈkɕɔw̃ʂ.ka/, /ˈkɕɔnʂ.ka/
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  • Rhymes: -ɔw̃ʂka
  • Syllabification: książ‧ka

Noun

książka f (diminutive książeczka)

  1. book (collection of sheets of paper bound together to hinge at one edge, containing printed or written material, pictures, etc.)
  2. book (long work fit for publication, typically prose, such as a novel or textbook, and typically published as such a bound collection of sheets)
  3. diminutive of księga (ledger) (book for keeping notes; a record book, a register)
  4. (Middle Polish, in the plural) oxeye daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare)

Usage notes

In Middle Polish, the term was sometimes a diminutive of księga in the meaning book; however, even by the 16th century, the term gained and has kept a neutral meaning, and is now the standard term for book.

Declension

Derived terms

adjective
proverb

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), książka is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 20 times in scientific texts, 39 times in news, 45 times in essays, 27 times in fiction, and 16 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 147 times, making it the 392nd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

References

  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “książka”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 206

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