uchwała

See also: uchwala

Old Polish

Alternative forms

Etymology

    Deverbal from uchwalić. First attested in the fifteen century.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /uxfa(ː)ɫa/
    • IPA(key): (15th CE) /uxfaɫa/, /uxfɒɫa/

    Noun

    uchwała f

    1. resolution, judgment, order, decision
      • 1874-1891 [Fifteen century], Rozprawy i Sprawozdania z Posiedzeń Wydziału Filologicznego Akademii Umiejętności[2], [3], [4], volume XVI, page 343:
        Vchvala laudum
        [Uchwała laudum]
    2. (law, attested in Masovia) resolution (written motion adopted by a deliberative body)
    3. ordinance (decision of city authorities, city law)
      • 1876-1929 [Middle of the 15th century], Vatroslav Jagić, editor, Archiv für slavische Philologie[5], volume XXVII, page 266:
        Arbitrium, voluntas, consensus vlg. wffala, wola
        [Arbitrium, voluntas, consensus vlg. ufała, wola]

    Derived terms

    nouns
    • uchwała mieścka
    • ziemska uchwała
    adjectives
    • ufalony
    nouns
    verbs

    Descendants

    • Polish: uchwała

    References

    • B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “uchwała”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

    Polish

    Etymology

      Inherited from Old Polish uchwała. By surface analysis, deverbal from uchwalić.

      Pronunciation

       
      • IPA(key): /uˈxfa.wa/
      • Audio:(file)
      • Rhymes: -awa
      • Syllabification: u‧chwa‧ła

      Noun

      uchwała f

      1. (law) resolution (written motion adopted by a deliberative body)
        Synonym: rezolucja
      2. (obsolete) adjudicate
        Synonyms: uchwalenie, uchwalanie

      Declension

      verbs

      Trivia

      According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), uchwała is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 5 times in scientific texts, 26 times in news, 73 times in essays, 0 times in fiction, and 1 time in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 105 times, making it the 594th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

      References

      1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990), “uchwała”, 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 620

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