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Polish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited from Old Polish weśród. By surface analysis, univerbation of w + śród.
Pronunciation
Preposition
wśród
- denotes location of being surrounded; among
- Synonyms: pośród, (less common) śród, (less common) wpośród
- Near-synonyms: między, pomiędzy
- denotes belonging to a whole; among
- Synonyms: pośród, (less common) śród, w liczbie, (less common) wpośród
- Antonym: poza
- Near-synonyms: między, pomiędzy
- denotes something detected in a crowd; among
- Synonyms: (less common) śród, (less common) wpośród
- Antonym: poza
- Near-synonym: u
- denotes accomponying phenomena; among
- Synonyms: (less common) śród, (less common) wpośród
- Near-synonym: w
- (obsolete) denotes time in which something occurs; at
- Near-synonyms: podczas, w
- (obsolete) denotes internal location; within
- Synonyms: w, w środku
Trivia
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), wśród is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 44 times in scientific texts, 50 times in news, 49 times in essays, 34 times in fiction, and 8 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 185 times, making it the 308th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.
References
- ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “wśród”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 686
Further reading
- wśród in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- wśród in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “wśród”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- Renata Bronikowska (04.01.2022) “WŚRÓD”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “wśród”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “wśród”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1919), “wśród”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 7, Warsaw, page 781