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1968 [End of the 15th century], Michał Muszyński, editor, Glosy, zapiski i niektóre teksty polskie w starych drukach i rękopisach Biblioteki Kórnickiej do roku 1550, cz. II, volume II, page 203:
Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “posiadać”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
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), “posiadać”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), posiadać is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 44 times in scientific texts, 25 times in news, 43 times in essays, 7 times in fiction, and 3 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 122 times, making it the 494th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]
References
^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “posiadać”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 410
Further reading
posiadać in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “posiadać”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
“POSIADAĆ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 08.01.2009
Paweł Kupiszewski (31.10.2019) “POSIADAĆ%20SIĘ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
1) Personal neuter forms might be considered nonstandard, protological, or nonce, appearing mostly in literature to refer to grammatically neuter nouns, however might also be used for people who prefer neuter forms. 2) The pluperfect is either archaic or obsolete and now used for conditional in the past.