wydział

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Polish

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Etymology

Deverbal from wydzielić. First attested in the 16th century.[1]

Pronunciation

 
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  • Rhymes: -ɘd͡ʑaw
  • Syllabification: wy‧dział

Noun

wydział m inan (related adjective wydziałowy)

  1. department (separate part of an organization with its own function)
    Synonyms: dział, oddział
  2. (education) faculty (division of a university)
    Synonym: fakultet
  3. (obsolete) school district
  4. (obsolete) division (act or process of dividing anything)
    Synonym: podział
  5. (obsolete) allocation, ration, quota (result of division)
    Synonym: przydział
  6. (obsolete) separated part
    Synonym: działka
  7. (obsolete) field; specialty (area of activity)

Declension

Descendants

  • Kashubian: wëdzél (calque)

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), wydział is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 1 time in scientific texts, 38 times in news, 62 times in essays, 5 times in fiction, and 3 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 109 times, making it the 575th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]

References

  1. ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “wydział”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  2. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “wydział”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 694

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