spotkanie

Polish

Etymology

From spotkać + -anie. Compare English meeting. First attested in the 16th century.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /spɔtˈka.ɲɛ/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /spɔtˈka.ɲe/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -aɲɛ
  • Syllabification: spot‧ka‧nie

Noun

spotkanie n

  1. verbal noun of spotkać
  2. meeting [+ z (instrumental) = with whom]
  3. (sports) match
    Synonym: mecz

Declension

Derived terms

noun
  • spotkanie na szczycie
verbs

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), spotkanie is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 8 times in scientific texts, 131 times in news, 25 times in essays, 16 times in fiction, and 6 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 186 times, making it the 304th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]

References

  1. Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “spotkanie”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  2. Ida Kurcz (1990) “spotkanie”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 549

Further reading

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