przemysł

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przemysł

Etymology

Deverbal from przemyśleć. Sense 1 is a semantic loan from Latin industria under the influence of other modern languages.[1][2] First attested in 1566.[3]

Pronunciation

 

Noun

przemysł m inan (related adjective przemysłowy)

  1. industry (production of goods from materials from the Earth on a large scale, often with machines and automation)
    Synonym: industria
  2. (archaic) procedure (manner of performing an activity or job)
  3. (obsolete) ingenuity, craftiness, cleverness
    Synonyms: pomysłowość, spryt
  4. (obsolete) ruse; trick (manner of performing an activity or job)
    Synonyms: podstęp, wybieg
  5. (Middle Polish) plan, intention; idea
    Synonyms: plan, pomysł, zamiar
  6. (Middle Polish) consideration; pondering, musings (thoughts on a subject)

Declension

Derived terms

noun

Descendants

  • Kashubian: przemësł

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), przemysł is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 39 times in scientific texts, 71 times in news, 125 times in essays, 9 times in fiction, and 3 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 247 times, making it the 217th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[4]

References

  1. ^ Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “przemysł”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
  2. ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “przemysł”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  3. ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “przemysł”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  4. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “przemysł”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 453

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