zjawisko

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Polish[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From zjawić +‎ -isko. First attested in 1791.[1] Compare Kashubian zjawiszcze and Silesian zjawisko.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /zjaˈvis.kɔ/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -iskɔ
  • Syllabification: zja‧wis‧ko

Noun[edit]

zjawisko n

  1. phenomenon (thing or being, event or process, perceptible through senses)
    Synonym: fenomen
  2. phenomenon (fact or event considered very unusual)
    Synonym: fenomen
  3. apparition (unreal dream vision or delusion)
    Synonym: zjawa

Declension[edit]

Trivia[edit]

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), zjawisko is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 71 times in scientific texts, 8 times in news, 58 times in essays, 8 times in fiction, and 3 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 148 times, making it the 391st most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “zjawisko”, in Słownik języka polskiego[1]
  2. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “zjawisko”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎[2] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 773

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