zjazd
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Polish
Etymology
Deverbal from zjeździć.[1] First attested in the 16th century.[2] Compare Kashubian zjôzd, Silesian sjŏzd, and Russian съезд (sʺjezd).
Pronunciation
Noun
zjazd m inan (related adjective zjazdowy)
- descent, rappel, downhill (act or result of riding downward)
- descent, rappel, downhill (that which one rides downhill)
- convention, congress, reunion (gathering of people in one place)
- convention, congress, reunion (deliberations held by such a gathering of people)
- convention, congress, reunion (people gathered for such a meeting)
- exit ramp, off-ramp (segment of roadway that directs vehicular traffic from a freeway onto local roads)
- (sports) downhill competition (competition in which the aim to reach the bottom of a slope in a set amount of time e.g. on skiis or a mountain bike, etc.)
- (colloquial) drop, fall (decrease in stock value)
- Synonym: spadek
- (colloquial) crash; comedown (bad feeling after the high of a drug)
- drive-off (act of ending a vehicle's route to find a permanent stop or rest place)
Declension
Declension of zjazd
Trivia
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), zjazd is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 5 times in scientific texts, 34 times in news, 24 times in essays, 4 times in fiction, and 0 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 67 times, making it the 981st most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[3]
References
- ^ Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “jeździć”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
- ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “zjazd”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “zjazd”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 773
Further reading
- zjazd in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- zjazd in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- “ZJAZD”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 24.09.2009
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “zjazd”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “zjazd”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1927), “zjazd”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 8, Warsaw, page 512