województwo

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See also: wòjewództwò and wojewōdztwo

Old Polish

Etymology

From wojewoda +‎ -dztwo. First attested in the 15th century.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /vɔjɛvɔːt͡stfɔ/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /vɔjɛvot͡stfɔ/

Noun

województwo n

  1. (attested in Masovia) voivodeship (administrative division belonging to a voivode)
adjectives
nouns

Descendants

  • Polish: województwo
  • Silesian: wojewōdztwo

References

  • Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “wojewoda”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
  • Mańczak, Witold (2017) “wojewoda”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN
  • 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), “województwo”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

Polish

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Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish województwo. By surface analysis, wojewoda +‎ -ztwo. Compare Kashubian wòjewództwò.

Pronunciation

 
  • IPA(key): /vɔ.jɛˈvut͡s.tfɔ/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ut͡stfɔ
  • Syllabification: wo‧je‧wódz‧two

Noun

województwo n (related adjective wojewódzki)

  1. voivodeship (third-level unit of local government and administration in Poland, above powiat and gmina)
    Coordinate terms: gmina, powiat, sołectwo
    1. (metonymically) voivodeship (people living in such a division)
    2. (government, metonymically) voivodeship office (headquarters of such a district)
    3. (government, metonymically) voivodeship authorities (people in charge of such a district)
    4. (government, metonymically, obsolete) voivodeship (position of a voivode)

Declension

Declension of województwo
singular plural
nominative województwo województwa
genitive województwa województw
dative województwu województwom
accusative województwo województwa
instrumental województwem województwami
locative województwie województwach
vocative województwo województwa

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), województwo is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 4 times in scientific texts, 81 times in news, 75 times in essays, 2 times in fiction, and 2 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 164 times, making it the 351st most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

Noun

województwo nvir pl

  1. (collective, obsolete) voivode and his wife

Declension

Declension of województwo
plural
nominative województwo
genitive województwa
dative województwu
accusative województwo
instrumental województwem
locative województwie
vocative województwo

References

  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “województwo”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 674

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