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Polish
Etymology
From spotkać + -anie. Compare English meeting. First attested in the 16th century.
Pronunciation
Noun
spotkanie n
- verbal noun of spotkać
- meeting
- (sports) match
- Synonym: mecz
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Trivia
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), spotkanie is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 8 times in scientific texts, 131 times in news, 25 times in essays, 16 times in fiction, and 6 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 186 times, making it the 304th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.
References
- ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “spotkanie”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “spotkanie”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 549
Further reading
- spotkanie in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- spotkanie in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “spotkanie”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1915), “spotkanie”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 6, Warsaw, page 324