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wybór

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Old Polish

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Etymology

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    Deverbal from wybrać. First attested in 1495. Compare Old Czech výbor and Old Slovak výbor.

    Pronunciation

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

    Noun

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    wybór m animacy unattested

    1. (attested in Greater Poland) choice (something highly sought or of high quality)
      • [1495], Rękopiśmienne luźne ekscerpty z ksiąg ziemskich i grodzkich kościańskich, poznańskich oraz pyzdrskich, number 243, Kościan, Poznań, Pyzdry:
        Pro piscibus magnis al. wybor et parvis dictis caschernycza
        [Pro piscibus magnis al. wybór et parvis dictis kaszernica]

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    Descendants

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    • Polish: wybór
    • Silesian: wybōr

    References

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    • Boryś, Wiesław (2005), “wybór”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
    • Mańczak, Witold (2017), “wybór”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN
    • B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “wybór”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

    Polish

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    Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
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    Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
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    Etymology

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      Inherited from Old Polish wybór. By surface analysis, deverbal from wybrać. Compare Czech výbor, Kashubian wëbór, and Russian вы́бор (výbor).

      Pronunciation

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      • Rhymes: -ɘbur
      • Syllabification: wy‧bór

      Noun

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      wybór m inan

      1. choice (act of choosing; option; a decision; an opportunity to choose or select something) [with genitive ‘of what’; or with spośród (+ genitive) ‘from among what’; or with między (+ instrumental) ‘between what’]
        Nie poszedłem tam z wyboru.I didn't go there by choice.
      2. choice (that which was chosen)
      3. choice, selection (collection of things to choose from)
        Synonym: dobór
      4. (literature) selection (collection of works of literature or art put together because of certain common characteristics)
      5. (politics) vote, choice, selection (act or instance of participating in selecting someone for a particular role, typically in government) [with na (+ accusative) ‘for what position’]
        Synonym: obiór
      6. (in the plural, politics) election (process of choosing a new leader or representatives)
        Synonym: elekcja
      7. (obsolete, military) conscription, recruitment
        Synonyms: pobór, zaciąg
      8. (obsolete) preparation (act of preparing oneself)
        Synonym: przygotowanie się
      9. (obsolete) choice (best of something)

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      Trivia

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      According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), wybór is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 13 times in scientific texts, 40 times in news, 32 times in essays, 7 times in fiction, and 5 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 97 times, making it the 651st most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

      References

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      1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990), “wybór”, 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 688

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