wysiłek

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Polish

Etymology

From wysilić się +‎ -ek.[1][2] First attested in 1803.[3]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vɘˈɕi.wɛk/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -iwɛk
  • Syllabification: wy‧si‧łek

Noun

wysiłek m inan (related adjective wysiłkowy)

  1. effort (work involved in performing an activity; exertion)

Declension

Derived terms

adjective

Descendants

  • Silesian: wysiyłek (calque)

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), wysiłek is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 19 times in scientific texts, 14 times in news, 39 times in essays, 14 times in fiction, and 2 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 88 times, making it the 728th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[4]

References

  1. ^ Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “wysiłek”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
  2. ^ Mańczak, Witold (2017) “wysiłek”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN
  3. ^ Roczniki Towarzystwa Warszawskiego Przyiaciół Nauk (in Polish), volume 2, 1803, page 374
  4. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “wysiłek”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 711

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