uchwała

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See also: uchwala

Old Polish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Deverbal from uchwalić. First attested in the fifteen century.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /uxfa(ː)ɫa/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /uxfaɫa/, /uxfɒɫa/

Noun

uchwała f

  1. resolution, judgment, order, decision
    • 1874-1891 [Fifteen century], Rozprawy i Sprawozdania z Posiedzeń Wydziału Filologicznego Akademii Umiejętności, , , volume XVI, page 343:
      Vchvala laudum
      [Uchwała laudum]
  2. (law, attested in Masovia) resolution (written motion adopted by a deliberative body)
  3. ordinance (decision of city authorities, city law)
    • 1876-1929 [Middle of the 15th century], Vatroslav Jagić, editor, Archiv für slavische Philologie, volume XXVII, page 266:
      Arbitrium, voluntas, consensus vlg. wffala, wola
      [Arbitrium, voluntas, consensus vlg. ufała, wola]

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Descendants

  • Polish: uchwała

References

  • B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “uchwała”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

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Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish uchwała. By surface analysis, deverbal from uchwalić.

Pronunciation

 
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  • Rhymes: -awa
  • Syllabification: u‧chwa‧ła

Noun

uchwała f

  1. (law) resolution (written motion adopted by a deliberative body)
    Synonym: rezolucja
  2. (obsolete) adjudicate
    Synonyms: uchwalenie, uchwalanie

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Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), uchwała is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 5 times in scientific texts, 26 times in news, 73 times in essays, 0 times in fiction, and 1 time in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 105 times, making it the 594th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

References

  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “uchwała”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 620

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