kopalnia

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Polish[edit]

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kopalnia

Etymology[edit]

Calque of Latin fodīna.[1][2][3] By surface analysis, kopać +‎ -alnia. First attested in 1782.[4] Displaced góra.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /kɔˈpal.ɲa/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -alɲa
  • Syllabification: ko‧pal‧nia

Noun[edit]

kopalnia f (related adjective kopalniany)

  1. mine (excavation from which ore or solid minerals are taken, especially one consisting of underground tunnels)
  2. (figuratively) mine (any source of wealth or resources)
    kopalnia złotagold mine

Declension[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • Kashubian: kòpalniô (calque)
  • Masurian: kopalniá (calque)
  • Silesian: kopalnia

Trivia[edit]

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), kopalnia is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 20 times in scientific texts, 18 times in news, 8 times in essays, 6 times in fiction, and 2 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 54 times, making it the 1192nd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[5]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “kopalnia”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
  2. ^ Mańczak, Witold (2017) “kopalnia”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN
  3. ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “kopalnia”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  4. ^ Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “kopalnia”, in Słownik języka polskiego[1]
  5. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “kopalnia”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎[2] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 195

Further reading[edit]

Silesian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Polish kopalnia. By surface analysis, kopać +‎ -alnia.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /kɔˈpalɲa/
  • Rhymes: -alɲa
  • Syllabification: ko‧pal‧nia

Noun[edit]

kopalnia f

  1. mine (excavation from which ore or solid minerals are taken, especially one consisting of underground tunnels)

Declension[edit]

Further reading[edit]

  • kopalnia in silling.org
  • Henryk Jaroszewicz (2022) “kopalnia”, in Zasady pisowni języka śląskiego (in Polish), Siedlce: Wydawnictwo Naukowe IKR[i]BL, page 88