praca

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Old Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Czech prácě.[1] First attested in the 14th century.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

praca f

  1. manual labor, work
    • 1874-1891 [15th century], Rozprawy i Sprawozdania z Posiedzeń Wydziału Filologicznego Akademii Umiejętności, , , volume XXII, page 244:
      Niczss na tem swyeczye nye moze przicz przes myrzyaczky a przes pracze
      [Nics na tem świecie nie może przyć przez mirziączki a przez prace]
  2. action, act of doing
    • 1901 [1471], Materiały i Prace Komisji Językowej Akademii Umiejętności w Krakowie, volume V, page 5:
      Energia, id est interior operacio siue labor... wnątrzna praczia (Prol)
      [Energia, id est interior operacio siue labor... wnętrzna praca (Prol)]
  3. (attested in Silesia) care (close attention; concern; responsibility)
    • 1937 [End of the 15th century–beginning of the 16th century], Józef Birkenmajer, editor, Bogarodzica dziewica. Analiza tekstu, treści i formy, number E, Cieszyn:
      O duschy o grzeszney sam bog pracza yma
      [O duszy o grzesznej sam Bog pracą ima]
  4. (attested in Lesser Poland) power, authority; control
    • 1895 [Fifteenth century], Franciszek Piekosiński, editor, Tłumaczenia polskie statutów ziemskich. Kodeks Działyńskich I, Lesser Poland, page 10:
      Tedi tho gymyenye tych dvchownych na naszą pracza przypysvgemy (praedicta... bona... decrevimus nostro regno... applicanda)
      [Tedy to jimienie tych duchownych na naszę pracą przypisujemy (praedicta... bona... decrevimus nostro regno... applicanda)]
  5. nuisance, pain
    • 1930 [c. 1455], “Neh”, in Ludwik Bernacki, editor, Biblia królowej Zofii (Biblia szaroszpatacka), section 9,32:
      Nye odwraczay swego oblycza we wszey praci (omnem laborem), gesz nas poscygla
      [Nie odwracaj swego oblicza we wszej pracy (omnem laborem), jeż nas pościgła]

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Descendants

References

  1. ^ Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “praca”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
  • 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), “praca”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

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Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish praca.

Pronunciation

 
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  • Rhymes: -at͡sa
  • Syllabification: pra‧ca

Noun

praca f

  1. work (sustained effort to overcome obstacles and achieve a result)
    Synonym: (colloquial) robota
  2. job (economic role for which a person is paid)
    Synonym: (colloquial) robota
    Znajdź normalną pracę.Get a real job.
  3. work; job, workplace (place where one performs such activities)
    Synonym: (colloquial) robota
  4. work (product; the result of effort, particularly a literary, artistic, or intellectual production)
    Synonym: (colloquial) robota
  5. (medicine) action; organ function
  6. (physics) work (measure of energy expended in moving an object)

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Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), praca is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 161 times in scientific texts, 260 times in news, 426 times in essays, 71 times in fiction, and 64 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 821 times, making it the 53rd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

References

  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “praca”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 429

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