wizyta

Kashubian

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *weyd-

Proto-Indo-European *-(h₁)seti

Proto-Indo-European *wéydseti

Proto-Italic *weidsō

Latin vīsō

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Italic *-āō

Latin -ō

Latin -tō

Latin -itō

Latin vīsitōlbor.

Middle French visiter

French visiterdeverb.

French visitebor.

Polish wizytabor.

Kashubian wizyta

Borrowed from Polish wizyta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /viˈzi.ta/
• Rhymes: -ita
• Syllabification: wi‧zy‧ta

Noun

wizyta f

1. visit (single act of visiting)

   Synonyms: gòscëna, nawiôdëna

Further reading

• Jan Trepczyk (1994), “wizyta”, in Słownik polsko-kaszubski (in Kashubian), volumes 1–2
• Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011), “wizyta”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎^[3]

Polish

Alternative forms

• fizéta (Southern Greater Poland, Krobia)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *weyd-

Proto-Indo-European *-(h₁)seti

Proto-Indo-European *wéydseti

Proto-Italic *weidsō

Latin vīsō

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Italic *-āō

Latin -ō

Latin -tō

Latin -itō

Latin vīsitōlbor.

Middle French visiter

French visiterdeverb.

French visitebor.

Polish wizyta

Borrowed from French visite. First attested in 1624–1625.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /viˈzɘ.ta/

• (Middle Polish) IPA^(key): /viˈzɨ.ta/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɘta
• Syllabification: wi‧zy‧ta

Noun

wizyta f (diminutive wizytka, related adjective wizytowy)

1. visit (single act of visiting) [with u (+ genitive) ‘at whose home’]

   Synonym: odwiedziny

2. appointment (arrangement for a patient to meet a doctor)
3. (obsolete) visitation (official visit)

   Synonym: wizytacja

4. (obsolete) inventory (act of counting supplies)

Declension

Declension of wizyta

	singular	plural
nominative	wizyta	wizyty
genitive	wizyty	wizyt
dative	wizycie	wizytom
accusative	wizytę	wizyty
instrumental	wizytą	wizytami
locative	wizycie	wizytach
vocative	wizyto	wizyty

Derived terms

nouns

• wizytówka

Descendants

• → Kashubian: wizyta
• → Silesian: wizyta

See also

• umawiać / umówić

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), wizyta is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 1 time in scientific texts, 69 times in news, 6 times in essays, 10 times in fiction, and 6 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 92 times, making it the 691st most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

Further reading

• wizyta in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• wizyta in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Paweł Kupiszewski (15.12.2022), “WIZYTA”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814), “wizyta”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “wizyta”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1919), “wizyta”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 7, Warsaw, page 635
• Jan Karłowicz (1911), “wizyta”, in Jan Łoś, editors, Słownik gwar polskich [Dictionary of Polish dialects] (in Polish), volumes 6: U—Ż, Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, page 133

Silesian

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *weyd-

Proto-Indo-European *-(h₁)seti

Proto-Indo-European *wéydseti

Proto-Italic *weidsō

Latin vīsō

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Italic *-āō

Latin -ō

Latin -tō

Latin -itō

Latin vīsitōlbor.

Middle French visiter

French visiterdeverb.

French visitebor.

Polish wizytabor.

Silesian wizyta

Borrowed from Polish wizyta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /viˈzɪ.ta/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪta
• Syllabification: wi‧zy‧ta

Noun

wizyta f

1. visit (single act of visiting)

Further reading

• wizyta in silling.org