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Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “woleć”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
Mańczak, Witold (2017) “woleć”, 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), “woleć”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), woleć is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 2 times in scientific texts, 1 time in news, 5 times in essays, 16 times in fiction, and 46 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 70 times, making it the 927th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]
References
^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “woleć”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 675
Further reading
woleć in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “woleć”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku
“WOLEĆ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku, 29.06.2023
1) Personal neuter forms might be considered nonstandard, protological, or nonce, appearing mostly in literature to refer to grammatically neuter nouns, however might also be used for people who prefer neuter forms. 2) The pluperfect is either archaic or obsolete and now used for conditional in the past.