wniosek

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Etymology

From wnieść +‎ -ek.[1][2] First attested in 1656–1688.[3] Compare Silesian wzniōsek and Ukrainian вне́сок (vnésok).

Pronunciation

 
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  • Rhymes: -ɔsɛk
  • Syllabification: wnio‧sek

Noun

wniosek m inan

  1. conclusion, outcome
    Synonym: konkluzja
  2. request, application
    Synonym: aplikacja
  3. proposal
    Synonym: propozycja
  4. (obsolete) bride price, dower
    Synonyms: posag, wiano
  5. (obsolete) that which is carried in; contribution

Declension

Declension of wniosek
singular plural
nominative wniosek wnioski
genitive wniosku wniosków
dative wnioskowi wnioskom
accusative wniosek wnioski
instrumental wnioskiem wnioskami
locative wniosku wnioskach
vocative wniosku wnioski

Derived terms

nouns

Descendants

  • → Kashubian: wniosk (calque)

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), wniosek is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 25 times in scientific texts, 38 times in news, 72 times in essays, 10 times in fiction, and 3 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 148 times, making it the 390th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[4]

References

  1. ^ Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “wniosek”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
  2. ^ Mańczak, Witold (2017) “wniosek”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN
  3. ^ Paweł Kupiszewski (20.04.2023) “WNIOSEK”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
  4. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “wniosek”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 673

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