pełnia
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Old Polish
Etymology
From pełny + -a. First attested in the end of the 15th century.
Pronunciation
Noun
pełnia f
- (attested in Greater Poland, Masovia) full moon
- 1921-2024 [End of the 15th century], Slavia Occidentalis, volume XXXIV, Gniezno, Warsaw, page 162:
- Tacz panna... szlyczną yako myeszyącz w pelny
- [Tać panna... śliczna jako miesiąc w pełni]
Descendants
References
- Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “pełnia”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
- B. Sieradzka-Baziur, editor (2011–2015), “pełnia”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN
Polish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Polish pełnia. By surface analysis, pełny + -a. Compare Belarusian поўня (póŭnja), Kashubian pôłniô, Silesian połniŏ, Slovincian pôùnjo, Ukrainian по́вня (póvnja), Carpathian Rusyn повня (povnja).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpɛw.ɲa/
- (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈpɛɫ.ɲɒ/
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -ɛwɲa
- Syllabification: peł‧nia
Noun
pełnia f
- fullness (state in which nothing is missing)
- apex, apogee (highest degree or intensity)
- full moon (phase of the moon when it is in opposition to the sun and its full disc is therefore visible)
- Coordinate term: nów
- full moon (moon when it is in opposition to the sun)
- Coordinate term: nów
- (obsolete) whole number; complete set
- (obsolete) open water (wide, far off water as opposed to water by the shore)
Declension
Declension of pełnia
Derived terms
adverbs
Trivia
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), pełnia is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 18 times in scientific texts, 17 times in news, 36 times in essays, 3 times in fiction, and 4 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 78 times, making it the 824th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.
References
Further reading
- pełnia in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- pełnia in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “pełnia”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “pełnia”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “pełnia”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1908), “pełnia”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw, page 106
- pełnia in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego