powiatowy

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Polish

Etymology

From powiat +‎ -owy. First attested in 1544.[1] Compare Kashubian pòwiatowi.

Pronunciation

 
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  • Rhymes: -ɔvɘ
  • Syllabification: po‧wia‧to‧wy

Adjective

powiatowy (not comparable, no derived adverb)

  1. (relational) powiat, county

Declension

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), powiatowy is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 6 times in scientific texts, 30 times in news, 31 times in essays, 3 times in fiction, and 0 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 70 times, making it the 923rd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]

References

  1. ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “powiatowy”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  2. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “powiatowy”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 418

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