podstawa

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See also: podstawą

Masurian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Old Polish podstawa. By surface analysis, deverbal from podstazicz.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): [pɔt͡sˈtava]
  • Syllabification: pod‧sta‧wa

Noun[edit]

podstawa f

  1. stool (in a reel: a board mounted directly on the legs)
  2. (weaving) warp (threads stretched lengthwise in a loom)

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Further reading[edit]

  • Zofia Stamirowska (1987-2021), “podstawa”, in Anna Basara, editor, Słownik gwar Ostródzkiego, Warmii i Mazur, volume 6, Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich Wydawnictwo Polskiej Akademii Nauk, →ISBN, page 171

Old Polish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Deverbal from podstawić. First attested in the 14th century. Compare Old Czech podstava.

Pronunciation[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

podstawa f

  1. substance, essence (set of features, what is essential and unchangeable in a subject)
    • 1877-1881 [1437], Władysław Wisłocki, editor, Katalog rękopisów Biblioteki Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, number 228, page 87:
      Podstawa intersticium
      [Podstawa intersticium]

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Descendants[edit]

  • Masurian: podstawa
  • Polish: podstawa
  • Silesian: podstawa

References[edit]

Polish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Old Polish podstawa. By surface analysis, deverbal from podstawić. Compare Kashubian pòdstawa and Russian подста́ва (podstáva).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /pɔtˈsta.va/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /pɔtˈsta.va/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ava
  • Syllabification: pod‧sta‧wa

Noun[edit]

podstawa f (related adjective podstawowy)

  1. base (that upon which something stands)
  2. (anatomy) base (lower part of a set of bones that make up a specific part of the skeleton)
    Synonyms: baza, fundament, podbudowa
  3. (geometry) base (lowest side of a triangle or other polygon)
  4. (geometry) base (lowest face of a cone, pyramid or other polyhedron laid flat)
  5. base (element without which something can't exist)
  6. base (that which may be the beginning, cause or justification of something) [+ do (genitive) = to what], [+ żeby (infitive/past tense) = to do what]
  7. (econmic) base (specific amount that is the starting point for some financial calculations)
  8. (in the plural) basics (elementary knowledge in something)
    Synonyms: abc, abecadło, alfabet, elementarz
  9. (in the plural) basics (assumptions that give rise to some theory, science, concept)
    Synonym: podwaliny
  10. (Middle Polish) base (that which one may place one's legs)

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Trivia[edit]

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), podstawa is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 52 times in scientific texts, 19 times in news, 61 times in essays, 6 times in fiction, and 4 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 142 times, making it the 418th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990), “podstawa”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków; Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 387

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