dokonać

== Old Polish == === Etymology === Inherited from Proto-Slavic *dokonati. First attested in 1397. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /dɔkɔnat͡ɕʲ/ IPA(key): (15th CE) /dɔkɔnat͡ɕʲ/ === Verb === dokonać pf (imperfective dokonawać) (attested in Greater Poland) to finish, to put an end to, to complete (attested in Greater Poland) to take care of, to deal with (law, attested in Sieradz-Łęczyca) to support a claim (attested in Lesser Poland) to kill, to put an end to (attested in Greater Poland) to do, to realize, to commit (attested in Greater Poland) to limit (attested in Greater Poland) to strengthen, to perfect (attested in Greater Poland) to explain; to define, to specify (attested in Lesser Poland, Greater Poland) to prove, to present evidence against someone [with genitive or accusative ‘what’, along with na (+ accusative) or accusative ‘against whom’, along with o (+ accusative) ‘for what’] (attested in Masovia) to judge, to pass judgment on (attested in Greater Poland) The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include: to appeal to a higher authority The meaning of this term is uncertain. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== Polish: dokonać Silesian: dokōnać === References === Boryś, Wiesław (2005), “dokonać”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN Mańczak, Witold (2017), “dokonać”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000), “dokonać”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish) Bożena Sieradzka-Baziur, et al., editors (2011–2015), “dokonać”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN Ewa Deptuchowa, et al., editors (2023), “dokonać”, in Rozariusze z polskimi glosami. Internetowa baza danych [Dictionaries of Polish glosses, an Internet database] (in Polish), Kraków: Pracownia Języka Staropolskiego Instytut Języka Polskiego Polskiej Akademii Nauk == Polish == === Etymology === Inherited from Old Polish dokonać. By surface analysis, do- +‎ konać. === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -ɔnat͡ɕ Syllabification: do‧ko‧nać === Verb === dokonać pf (imperfective dokonywać) (transitive) to achieve, to accomplish, to pull off (to do something considered difficult) [with genitive] (transitive) to bring to an end [with genitive] (transitive) to commit, to perpetrate; to perform [with genitive] Synonyms: popełnić, dopuścić się (intransitive, Middle Polish) to die Synonyms: see Thesaurus:umierać (transitive, Middle Polish) to lay out; to explain; to specify (transitive, Middle Polish) to lay out; to determine, to delineate (transitive, Middle Polish) to conquer, to defeat Synonyms: see Thesaurus:bić The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include: (intransitive, Middle Polish) to become perfect (reflexive with się, literary) to happen, to take place (reflexive with się, Eastern Kraków, Gdów, Bochnia) synonym of przekonać się (reflexive with się, obsolete) to come to an end (reflexive with się, Middle Polish) to come true Synonym: urzeczywistnić się (reflexive with się, Middle Polish) to become exhausted; to destroy oneself ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== === Trivia === According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), dokonać is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 8 times in scientific texts, 48 times in news, 17 times in essays, 7 times in fiction, and 3 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 83 times, making it the 767th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words. === References === === Further reading === “dokonać”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎[14] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN “dokonać się”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎[15] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN “dokonać”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[16] (in Polish) Maria Renata Mayenowa; Stanisław Rospond; Witold Taszycki; Stefan Hrabec; Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023), “dokonać”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish] Maria Renata Mayenowa; Stanisław Rospond; Witold Taszycki; Stefan Hrabec; Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023), “dokonać się”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish] Wiesław Morawski (30.04.2019), “DOKONAĆ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century] Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814), “dokonać”, in Słownik języka polskiego Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “dokonać”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861 J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “dokonać”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 494 Jan Karłowicz (1900), “dokonać się”, in Słownik gwar polskich [Dictionary of Polish dialects] (in Polish), volume 1: A do E, Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, page 342 dokonać in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego dokonać się in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego