wiedza
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Polish
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *věďa, from *věděti. By surface analysis, deverbal from wiedzieć. First attested in 1612.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈvjɛ.d͡za/
- (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈvjɛ.d͡za/, /ˈvje.d͡za/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɛd͡za
- Syllabification: wie‧dza
Noun
wiedza f
- knowledge (relevant information that can be recalled from memory; that what one knows)
- knowledge (familiarity with something)
- (education, in set phrases) studies (subject focusing on a particular field of study)
- (obsolete) news (new information about someone)
Declension
Declension of wiedza
Derived terms
adjectives
nouns
Trivia
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), wiedza is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 27 times in scientific texts, 4 times in news, 27 times in essays, 7 times in fiction, and 3 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 68 times, making it the 956th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.
References
- ^ Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “wiedza”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
- ^ Paweł Kupiszewski (05.04.2022) “WIEDZA”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
- ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “wiedza”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 663
Further reading
- wiedza in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- wiedza in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “wiedza”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “wiedza”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1919), “wiedza”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 7, Warsaw, page 560
- wiedza in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego
- Wanda Decyk-Zięba, editor (2018-2022), “wiedza”, in Dydaktyczny Słownik Etymologiczno-historyczny Języka Polskiego [A Didactic, Historical, Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), →ISBN
Silesian
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *věďa, from *věděti. By surface analysis, deverbal from wiedzieć.
Pronunciation
Noun
wiedza f
Derived terms
nouns
Further reading
- Henryk Jaroszewicz (2022) “wiedza”, in Zasady pisowni języka śląskiego (in Polish), Siedlce: Wydawnictwo Naukowe IKRBL, page 150