połowa

== Old Polish == === Etymology === Back-formation from połowica. First attested in 1412. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /pɔɫɔva/ IPA(key): (15th CE) /pɔɫɔva/ === Noun === połowa f (attested in Greater Poland) half (one of two usually roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided, or considered as divided) ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== Polish: połowa→ Kashubian: pòłowa Silesian: połowa === References === Boryś, Wiesław (2005), “połowa”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN Mańczak, Witold (2017), “połowa”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000), “połowa”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish) 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), “połowa”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN == Polish == === Etymology === Inherited from Old Polish połowa. By surface analysis, back-formation from połowica. === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -ɔva Syllabification: po‧ło‧wa === Noun === połowa f (diminutive połówka) half (one of two usually roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided, or considered as divided) halfway point (moment or place equidistant or approximately equidistant from the beginning and end of something) Synonym: środek w połowie czasu ― half-way through other half (colloquial) half (somewhat large, unspecified amount) ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → Kashubian: pòłowa === Trivia === According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), połowa is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 31 times in scientific texts, 16 times in news, 20 times in essays, 12 times in fiction, and 7 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 86 times, making it the 744th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words. === References === === Further reading === “połowa”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎[2] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN “połowa”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[3] (in Polish) Maria Renata Mayenowa; Stanisław Rospond; Witold Taszycki; Stefan Hrabec; Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023), “połowa”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish] “POŁOWA”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 19.04.2010 Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814), “połowa”, in Słownik języka polskiego Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “połowa”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861 A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1908), “połowa”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw, page 548 == Silesian == === Etymology === Inherited from Old Polish połowa. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /pɔˈwɔ.va/ Rhymes: -ɔva Syllabification: po‧ło‧wa === Noun === połowa f (diminutive połōwka) half (one of two usually roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided, or considered as divided) ==== Declension ==== ==== Related terms ==== === Further reading === połowa in silling.org