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Old Polish
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
- 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]
- (law, attested in Masovia) resolution (written motion adopted by a deliberative body)
- 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]
Derived terms
Descendants
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
Polish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Polish uchwała. By surface analysis, deverbal from uchwalić.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -awa
- Syllabification: u‧chwa‧ła
Noun
uchwała f
- (law) resolution (written motion adopted by a deliberative body)
- Synonym: rezolucja
- (obsolete) adjudicate
- Synonyms: uchwalenie, uchwalanie
Declension
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
- ^ 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
Further reading
- uchwała in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- uchwała in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “uchwała”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- “UCHWAŁA”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 10.05.2016
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “uchwała”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “uchwała”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1919), “uchwała”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 7, Warsaw, page 213