ludowy

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Polish

Etymology

From lud +‎ -owy.[1][2][3] Compare Kashubian lëdowi and Silesian ludowy. First attested in the 19th century.[4]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /luˈdɔ.vɘ/
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  • Rhymes: -ɔvɘ
  • Syllabification: lu‧do‧wy

Adjective

ludowy (not comparable, no derived adverb)

  1. (relational) folk (of or pertaining to common people as opposed to ruling classes or elites)
  2. folk (believed or transmitted by the common people; not academically correct or rigorous)
    Synonyms: obiegowy, potoczny
  3. vernacular (of or pertaining to everyday language, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom)
    Synonyms: wernakularny, miejscowy, zwyczajowy
  4. people's (considered to be of, from, or in tune with the common people, rather than from a ruling elite)
  5. (architecture) folk, vernacular (of or related to local building materials and styles)
    Synonym: wernakularny

Declension

Derived terms

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Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), ludowy is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 16 times in scientific texts, 29 times in news, 38 times in essays, 6 times in fiction, and 4 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 93 times, making it the 679th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[5]

References

  1. ^ Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “lud”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
  2. ^ Mańczak, Witold (2017) “lud”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN
  3. ^ Sławski, Franciszek (1958-1965) “lud”, in Jan Safarewicz, Andrzej Siudut, editors, Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), Kraków: Towarzystwo Miłośników Języka Polskiego
  4. ^ J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1902), “ludowy”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 2, Warsaw, page 774
  5. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “ludowy”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 223

Further reading

  • ludowy in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • ludowy in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • ludowy in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego