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Polish
Etymology
From wymóc + -ać. First attested in the 16th century.[1]
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), wymagać is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 30 times in scientific texts, 10 times in news, 50 times in essays, 11 times in fiction, and 8 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 109 times, making it the 576th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]
References
^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “wymagać”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “wymagać”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 700
Further reading
wymagać in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN