spokój

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See also: spokoj, spokōj, and spòkój

Old Polish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From s- +‎ pokój. First attested in c. 1500.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /spɔkɔːj/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /spɔkoj/

Noun[edit]

spokój m ?

  1. peace (lack of worry)
    • 1908 [c. 1500], Bolesław Erzepki, editor, Przyczynki do średniowiecznego słownictwa polskiego. I. Glosy polskie wpisane do łacińsko-niemieckiego słownika drukowanego w roku 1490[2], page 99:
      Spokoy quies
      [Spokój quies]
    • c. 1500, Wokabularz lubiński, inkunabuł Archiwum Archidiecezjalnego w Gnieźnie, sygn. Inc. 78d., page 111v:
      Quies rwe spokoy
      [Quies rwe spokój]

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Descendants[edit]

  • Polish: spokój
  • Silesian: spokōj

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Polish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Old Polish spokój. By surface analysis, s- +‎ pokój. Compare Kashubian spòkój.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

spokój m inan

  1. calm, calmness, peace, tranquility (feeling of lack of worry)
    Antonym: niepokój
  2. calm, calmness, peace, tranquility (state of slowness or silence)
  3. peace (state or period without war)
    Synonym: niepokój
  4. peace (peaceful life)

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Trivia[edit]

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), spokój is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 8 times in scientific texts, 5 times in news, 4 times in essays, 25 times in fiction, and 26 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 68 times, making it the 954th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

Interjection[edit]

spokój

  1. hush! be quiet!

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References[edit]

  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “spokój”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎[1] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 547

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