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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)
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)
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
^ Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “ruch”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
^ 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]
^ 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
ruch in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “ruch”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
Wojciech Grzegorzewicz (1894) “ruch”, in Sprawozdania Komisji Językowej Akademii Umiejętności (in Polish), volume 5, Krakow: Akademia Umiejętności, page 120
“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