reszta
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See also: resztą
Kashubian
Etymology
Borrowed from German Rest. Compare Polish reszta.
Pronunciation
Noun
reszta f
- rest (remainder; that what remains)
- (uncountable) change (balance of money returned from the sum paid after deducting the price of a purchase)
Declension
Declension of reszta
Further reading
- Stefan Ramułt (1893) “rešta”, in Słownik języka pomorskiego czyli kaszubskiego (in Kashubian), page 180
- Bernard Sychta (1967-1973) “rešta”, in Słownik gwar kaszubskich, volume 4, page 325
- Jan Trepczyk (1994) “reszta”, in Słownik polsko-kaszubski (in Kashubian), volumes 1-2
- Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “reszta”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi
- “reszta”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022
Polish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from German Rest. First attested in 1582. Compare Kashubian reszta, Masurian resta, and Silesian reszta.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈrɛʂ.ta/
- (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈrɛʂ.ta/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɛʂta
- Syllabification: resz‧ta
Noun
reszta f (diminutive resztka)
- rest (remainder; that what remains)
- Synonyms: ostatek, pozostałość, residuum
- (uncountable) change (balance of money returned from the sum paid after deducting the price of a purchase)
- (arithmetic) remainder (amount left after repeatedly subtracting divisor)
Declension
Declension of reszta
Derived terms
adverbs
nouns
particles
verbs
- resztować impf
verbs
- dokonać reszty pf, dokonywać reszty impf
Related terms
adjective
noun
Descendants
Trivia
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), reszta is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 17 times in scientific texts, 4 times in news, 13 times in essays, 16 times in fiction, and 12 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 62 times, making it the 1061st most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.
References
- ^ Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “reszta”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
- ^ Mańczak, Witold (2017) “reszta”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN
- ^ Witold Doroszewski, editor (1958–1969), “reszta”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), Warszawa: PWN
- ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “resta, reszta”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “reszta”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 491
Further reading
- reszta in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- reszta in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- “RESZTA”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 07.05.2010
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “reszta”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “reszta”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1912), “reszta”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 5, Warsaw, page 520
- Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “reszta”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
Silesian
Etymology
Borrowed from German Rest. Compare Polish reszta.
Pronunciation
Noun
reszta f
- rest (remainder; that what remains)
- (uncountable) change (balance of money returned from the sum paid after deducting the price of a purchase)
Declension
Declension of reszta
Further reading
- reszta in silling.org
- Henryk Jaroszewicz (2022) “reszta”, in Zasady pisowni języka śląskiego (in Polish), Siedlce: Wydawnictwo Naukowe IKRBL, page 127