wybór

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Old Polish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

wybór m ?

  1. choice (something highly sought or of high quality)

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Descendants[edit]

  • Polish: wybór
  • Silesian: wybōr

References[edit]

Polish[edit]

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
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Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

wybór m inan

  1. choice (act of choosing; option; a decision; an opportunity to choose or select something) [+czego = of what] [+ spośród (czego) = from among what], [+ 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) [+ 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[edit]

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[edit]

  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

Further reading[edit]

  • wybór in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • wybory in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • wybór in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “wybór”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  • WYBÓR”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 26.06.2009
  • Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “wybór”, in Słownik języka polskiego[2]
  • Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “wybór”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861[3]
  • J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1919), “wybór”, in Słownik języka polskiego[4] (in Polish), volume 7, Warsaw, page 804

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