oddział

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Etymology

Deverbal from oddzielić. First attested in 1572. Compare Kashubian òddzél, Russian отде́л (otdél), and Silesian ôddzioł.

Pronunciation

Noun

oddział m inan (diminutive oddzialik, related adjective oddziałowy)

  1. (military) unit, squad (group of soldiers)
    Synonyms: formacja, jednostka, poczet
  2. department, branch (particular part of an enterprise or institution specialized in something)
    Synonyms: dział, wydział
    1. department, branch (those working in such a part)
  3. branch (part of a large enterprise or institution that is an independent facility)
    Synonyms: agenda, ekspozytura, filia
    1. department, branch (those working in such a part)
  4. ward (part of a hospital where patients reside)
    1. ward (building holding such a part)
    2. ward (those working in such a part)
  5. (somewhat archaic) grade (one of the groups into which children or adolescents are divided at school or kindergarten)
    Synonym: klasa
  6. (obsolete, originally) team (any organized group of people)

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Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), oddział is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 12 times in scientific texts, 49 times in news, 8 times in essays, 23 times in fiction, and 6 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 98 times, making it the 643rd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

References

  1. ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “oddział”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  2. ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “oddział”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  3. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “oddział”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎ (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 313

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