ruch

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See also: Ruch and rûch

Czech

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Etymology

Inherited from Old Czech ruch, from Proto-Slavic *rȗxъ.

Pronunciation

Noun

ruch m inan

  1. movement, especially brisk, quick movement of many people
  2. traffic
  3. Onomatopoeia for a striking or cracking sound; bang

Declension

Further reading

  • ruch”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • ruch”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
  • ruch”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

Kashubian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈrux/
  • Rhymes: -ux
  • Syllabification: ruch

Noun

ruch m inan

  1. Alternative form of rëch.

Declension

Further reading

  • Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “ruch”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi

Old Czech

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *rȗxъ.

Pronunciation

Noun

ruch m inan

  1. movement (physical motion between points in space)

Declension

Descendants

  • Czech: ruch

References

Plautdietsch

Adjective

ruch

  1. rough, uneven
  2. gruff, harsh

Polish

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Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *rȗxъ.[1] First attested in 1579.[2]

Pronunciation

 
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  • Rhymes: -ux
  • Syllabification: ruch

Noun

ruch m inan

  1. movement (physical motion between points in space)
    Synonym: przemieszczanie się
  2. movement (movement of the whole body or any part of it, intentionally or involuntarily)
  3. movement, exercise (physical activity, the purpose of which is to keep the body in the best condition)
  4. traffic (moving pedestrians or vehicles, or the flux or passage thereof)
  5. movement, action, bustle, liveliness (situation characterized by the fact that in a place there are many people who move and perform various activities at the same time)
  6. movement (a trend in various fields or social categories, a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals)
  7. (games) move (turn, act of taking action in a game)
    Synonym: posunięcie
  8. act (deliberate action by a person to achieve an intended goal)
  9. (literary) change, shift (exchange of someone or something for someone or something else)
  10. (mining) coal mine that has been merged with another and incorporated into a larger mining enterprise, but retains relative independence as part of that enterprise's structure (Is there an English equivalent to this definition?)
  11. (military) maneuver (large training exercise of military troops)
    Synonym: manewr
  12. (obsolete or dialectal, Far Masovian) tin button with an eyelet
  13. (obsolete or dialectal, Far Masovian) taciturn person

Declension

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Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), ruch is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 90 times in scientific texts, 58 times in news, 76 times in essays, 37 times in fiction, and 8 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 269 times, making it the 186th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[3]

References

  1. ^ Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “ruch”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
  2. ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “ruch”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  3. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “ruch”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 510

Further reading

Silesian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *rȗxъ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈrux/
  • Rhymes: -ux
  • Syllabification: ruch

Noun

ruch m inan

  1. movement (physical motion between points in space)
  2. movement (act of moving a body part)
  3. movement (a trend in various fields or social categories, a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals)
    Synonyms: akcyjŏ, partyjŏ, stŏwarziszynie
  4. (games) move (turn, act of taking action in a game)
  5. movement (manner of moving)
  6. traffic (moving pedestrians or vehicles, or the flux or passage thereof)

Declension

Further reading

Slovak

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Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *rȗxъ.

Pronunciation

Noun

ruch m inan

  1. commotion, bustle (situation in which there are many people moving and performing various activities at the same time)
  2. diligent action

Declension

Further reading

  • ruch”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2024