nauczyciel

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Old Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *naučiteljь. By surface analysis, nauczyć +‎ -ciel. First attested in 1484.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

nauczyciel m ? (female equivalent nauczycielka)

  1. teacher (one who teaches)
    • 1892 [1484], Hieronim Łopaciński, editor, Reguła trzeciego zakonu św. Franciszka i drobniejsze zabytki języka polskiego z końca w. XV i początku XVI‎, page 718:
      Yakyego a kogo sobye mayą nabyczi nyuczyczyela (de informatore ipsorum)
      [Jakiego a kogo sobie mają nabyć(i) nauczyciela (de informatore ipsorum)]

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Descendants

  • Masurian: naûcÿcziel
  • Polish: nauczyciel
  • Silesian: nauczyciel

References

Polish

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Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish nauczyciel. By surface analysis, nauczyć +‎ -ciel. Displaced Middle Polish uczyciel.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /na.uˈt͡ʂɨ.t͡ɕɛl/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /na.uˈt͡ʂɨ.t͡ɕɛl/, /na.uˈt͡ʂɨ.t͡ɕel/
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  • Rhymes: -ɨt͡ɕɛl
  • Syllabification: na‧u‧czy‧ciel

Noun

nauczyciel m pers (female equivalent nauczycielka or nauczyciel, related adjective nauczycielski or (obsolete) nauczycielowy)

  1. teacher (person who teaches, especially one employed in a school)
    Synonym: (colloquial, derogatory) belfer
  2. (literary, figurative) teacher, mentor (person or thing that causes one to be more aware or behave differently)

Usage notes

The genitive plural form nauczycielów is obsolete.

Declension

Declension of nauczyciel
singular plural
nominative nauczyciel nauczyciele
genitive nauczyciela nauczycieli/nauczycielów
dative nauczycielowi nauczycielom
accusative nauczyciela nauczycieli/nauczycielów
instrumental nauczycielem nauczycielami
locative nauczycielu nauczycielach
vocative nauczycielu nauczyciele

Derived terms

nouns

Noun

nauczyciel f (indeclinable, male equivalent nauczyciel)

  1. female equivalent of nauczyciel (“teacher”) (person who teaches, especially one employed in a school)
    Synonym: (more common) nauczycielka

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), nauczyciel is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 5 times in scientific texts, 25 times in news, 27 times in essays, 5 times in fiction, and 9 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 71 times, making it the 908th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

References

  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “nauczyciel”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎ (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 275

Further reading

Silesian

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish nauczyciel. By surface analysis, nauczyć +‎ -ciel.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nauˈt͡ʂɨt͡ɕɛl/
  • Rhymes: -ɨt͡ɕɛl
  • Syllabification: na‧u‧czy‧ciel

Noun

nauczyciel m pers

  1. (rare) teacher (person who teaches, especially one employed in a school)
    Synonym: (more common) rechtōr

Related terms

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Further reading

  • Henryk Jaroszewicz (2022) “nauczyciel”, in Zasady pisowni języka śląskiego (in Polish), Siedlce: Wydawnictwo Naukowe IKRBL, page 100
  • Aleksandra Wencel (2023) “naućićel”, in Dykcjůnôrz ślų̊sko-polski‎, page 446
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