zjazd

Polish

Etymology

Deverbal from zjeździć.[1] First attested in the 16th century.[2] Compare Kashubian zjôzd, Silesian sjŏzd, and Russian съезд (sʺjezd).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /zjast/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈzjɒst/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -ast
  • Syllabification: zjazd

Noun

zjazd m inan (related adjective zjazdowy)

  1. descent, rappel, downhill (act or result of riding downward)
  2. descent, rappel, downhill (that which one rides downhill)
  3. convention, congress, reunion (gathering of people in one place)
    Synonyms: kongres, zlot
  4. convention, congress, reunion (deliberations held by such a gathering of people)
  5. convention, congress, reunion (people gathered for such a meeting)
  6. exit ramp, off-ramp (segment of roadway that directs vehicular traffic from a freeway onto local roads) [+ z (genitive) = from what] [+ do (genitive) = to what] [+ na (accusative) = onto what]
  7. (sports) downhill competition (competition in which the aim to reach the bottom of a slope in a set amount of time e.g. on skiis or a mountain bike, etc.)
  8. (colloquial) drop, fall (decrease in stock value)
    Synonym: spadek
  9. (colloquial) crash; comedown (bad feeling after the high of a drug)
  10. drive-off (act of ending a vehicle's route to find a permanent stop or rest place)

Declension
Declension of zjazd
singular plural
nominative zjazd zjazdy
genitive zjazdu zjazdów
dative zjazdowi zjazdom
accusative zjazd zjazdy
instrumental zjazdem zjazdami
locative zjeździe zjazdach
vocative zjeździe zjazdy

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), zjazd is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 5 times in scientific texts, 34 times in news, 24 times in essays, 4 times in fiction, and 0 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 67 times, making it the 981st most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[3]

References
  1. Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “jeździć”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
  2. Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “zjazd”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  3. Ida Kurcz (1990) “zjazd”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎ (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 773

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