ustawa

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Old Polish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ustava. By surface analysis, deverbal from ustawić. First attested in the 15th century.

Pronunciation[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

ustawa f

  1. (law) ordinance, legal provision, legal principle, statute

Derived terms[edit]

verbs

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adverbs
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Descendants[edit]

  • Polish: ustawa
  • Silesian: ustawa

References[edit]

Polish[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Old Polish ustawa. By surface analysis, deverbal from ustawić.

Pronunciation[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

ustawa f (related adjective ustawowy, abbreviation ust.)

  1. (law) act; statute; bill; law (generally applicable legal act, adopted by the highest state authorities, relating to a specific field) [+ o (locative) = about/on what]
  2. (obsolete, sometimes collective) rule (norm of behavior in some group)
  3. (obsolete) institution (act of instituting, enacting, or appoint)
    Synonym: ustanowienie
  4. (obsolete, law) sanction (penalty, punishment, or some coercive measure, intended to ensure compliance)
    Synonym: sankcja
  5. (obsolete) agreement; arrangement
    Synonyms: ugoda, układ
  6. (obsolete) placement (act of placing)
    Synonym: ustawienie
  7. (obsolete, philosophy) composition, makeup (that which makes up something; the way it is organized)

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Trivia[edit]

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), ustawa is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 8 times in scientific texts, 16 times in news, 33 times in essays, 1 time in fiction, and 1 time in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 59 times, making it the 1099th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “ustawa”, 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 640

Further reading[edit]

  • ustawa in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • ustawa in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “ustawa”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  • USTAWA”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 09.09.2011
  • Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “ustawa”, in Słownik języka polskiego[3]
  • Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “ustawa”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861[4]
  • J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1919), “ustawa”, in Słownik języka polskiego[5] (in Polish), volume 7, Warsaw, page 375

Silesian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Old Polish ustawa. By surface analysis, deverbal from ustawić.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /uˈstava/
  • Rhymes: -ava
  • Syllabification: u‧sta‧wa

Noun[edit]

ustawa f

  1. (rare, law) act; statute; bill (generally applicable legal act, adopted by the highest state authorities, relating to a specific field)
    Synonyms: gezec, ordōnek, zakōn

Further reading[edit]

  • Henryk Jaroszewicz (2022) “ustawa”, in Zasady pisowni języka śląskiego (in Polish), Siedlce: Wydawnictwo Naukowe IKR[i]BL, page 147