pozostały

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Polish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From pozostać +‎ -ły.[1] First attested in the 16th century.[2]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /pɔ.zɔˈsta.wɨ/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /pɔ.zɔsˈta.ɫɨ/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -awɨ
  • Syllabification: po‧zo‧sta‧ły

Adjective[edit]

pozostały (not comparable, no derived adverb)

  1. remaining, leftover
  2. remaining (having not left)
  3. remaining, leftover (still existing after the rest has disappeared) [+ po (locative) = from what]
  4. remaining (available after the death of someone or dissolution of an institution) [+ po (locative) = from whom/what]
  5. remaining (continuing to have a particular trait)
  6. (sometimes nominalized) remaining (belonging to a different group)

Declension[edit]

Trivia[edit]

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), pozostały is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 19 times in scientific texts, 24 times in news, 12 times in essays, 1 time in fiction, and 2 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 58 times, making it the 1113th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[3]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “pozostały”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  2. ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “pozostały”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  3. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “pozostały”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎[1] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 425

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