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Old High German
Etymology
From the verb wartēn.
Noun
warto m
- guard
- custodian
Polish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From wart + -o. First attested in 1673.[1]
Verb
warto impf (defective)
- (intransitive) it is worth (there is a benefit or point in doing something)
- Warto to zrobić. ― It's worth doing/It's worth.
Conjugation
Trivia
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), warto is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 13 times in scientific texts, 23 times in news, 29 times in essays, 8 times in fiction, and 10 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 83 times, making it the 777th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
warto f
- vocative singular of warta
References
- ^ Herman Hugo(n) (1673) Aleksander Teodor Lacki, transl., Pobożne pragnienia… (in Polish), page 112: “Powiedz mi tedy, proszę, warto, nie ku wzgardzie, jeśli był mój Kochanek z wami w kortygardzie?”
- ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “warto”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 653
Further reading
- warto in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- warto in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “warto”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1919), “warto”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 7, Warsaw, page 467