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nauczyciel

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Old Polish

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Etymology

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    Inherited from Proto-Slavic *naučiteljь, from *naučiti + *-teľь. First attested in 1484. By surface analysis, nauczyć +‎ -ciel.

    Pronunciation

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

    Noun

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    nauczyciel m animacy unattested (female equivalent nauczycielka)

    1. (attested in Lesser Poland) teacher (one who teaches)
      • 1892 [1484], Hieronim Łopaciński, editor, Reguła trzeciego zakonu św. Franciszka i drobniejsze zabytki języka polskiego z końca w. XV i początku XVI[2], Krakow, page 718:
        Yakyego a kogo sobye mayą nabyczi nyuczyczyela (de informatore ipsorum)
        [Jakiego a kogo sobie mają nabyć(i) nauczyciela (de informatore ipsorum)]
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    Descendants

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    • Polish: nauczyciel, nocyciel (Sieradz)
    • Silesian: nauczyciel

    References

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    Polish

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    Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
    Wikipedia pl

    Alternative forms

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    Etymology

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      Inherited from Old Polish nauczyciel. By surface analysis, nauczyć +‎ -ciel. Displaced Middle Polish uczyciel.

      Pronunciation

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      • IPA(key): /na.uˈt͡ʂɘ.t͡ɕɛl/
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      • Rhymes: -ɘt͡ɕɛl
      • Syllabification: na‧u‧czy‧ciel

      Noun

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      nauczyciel m pers (female equivalent nauczycielka or nauczyciel, related adjective nauczycielski or (obsolete) nauczycielowy)

      1. teacher (person who teaches, especially one employed in a school)
        Synonym: (colloquial, derogatory) belfer
      2. (literary, figurative) teacher, mentor (person or thing that causes one to be more aware or behave differently)

      Usage notes

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      The genitive plural form nauczycielów is obsolete.

      Declension

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      Noun

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      nauczyciel f (indeclinable, male equivalent nauczyciel)

      1. female equivalent of nauczyciel (teacher) (person who teaches, especially one employed in a school)
        Synonym: (more common) nauczycielka

      Trivia

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      According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), nauczyciel is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 5 times in scientific texts, 25 times in news, 27 times in essays, 5 times in fiction, and 9 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 71 times, making it the 908th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

      References

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      1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990), “nauczyciel”, 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 275

      Further reading

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      Silesian

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      Etymology

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        Inherited from Old Polish nauczyciel. By surface analysis, nauczyć +‎ -ciel.

        Pronunciation

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        Noun

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        nauczyciel m pers

        1. (rare) teacher (person who teaches, especially one employed in a school)
          Synonym: (more common) rechtōr
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        Further reading

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        • Henryk Jaroszewicz (2022), “nauczyciel”, in Zasady pisowni języka śląskiego (in Polish), Siedlce: Wydawnictwo Naukowe IKR[i]BL, page 100
        • Aleksandra Wencel (2023), “naućićel”, in Dykcjůnôrz ślų̊sko-polski, page 446