zjawisko

Polish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ

Proto-Indo-European *-s

Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰsder.

Proto-Balto-Slavic *iź

Proto-Slavic *jьz

Proto-Slavic *jьz-

Proto-Indo-European *sem-

Proto-Indo-European *sm̥-

Proto-Balto-Slavic *san?

Proto-Indo-European *ḱe

Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm?

Proto-Slavic *sъ(n)

Old Polish z-

Polish z-

Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew-

Proto-Slavic *aviti

Polish jawić

Polish zjawić

Proto-Slavic *-išče

Proto-Slavic *-isko

Old Polish -isko

Polish -isko

Polish zjawisko

From zjawić + -isko. First attested in 1791.^[1] Compare Kashubian zjawiszcze and Silesian zjawisko.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /zjaˈvis.kɔ/
Audio: (file)
Rhymes: -iskɔ
Syllabification: zja‧wis‧ko

Noun

zjawisko n

phenomenon (thing or being, event or process, perceptible through senses)
Synonym: fenomen
phenomenon (fact or event considered very unusual)
Synonym: fenomen
apparition (unreal dream vision or delusion)
Synonym: zjawa

Declension

Declension of zjawisko

	singular	plural
nominative	zjawisko	zjawiska
genitive	zjawiska	zjawisk
dative	zjawisku	zjawiskom
accusative	zjawisko	zjawiska
instrumental	zjawiskiem	zjawiskami
locative	zjawisku	zjawiskach
vocative	zjawisko	zjawiska

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), zjawisko is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 71 times in scientific texts, 8 times in news, 58 times in essays, 8 times in fiction, and 3 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 148 times, making it the 391st most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.^[2]

References

^ Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814), “zjawisko”, in Słownik języka polskiego
^ Ida Kurcz (1990), “zjawisko”, 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 773