pytać

== Old Polish == === Etymology === Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pȳtàti. First attested in the 14th century. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /pitat͡ɕʲ/ IPA(key): (15th CE) /pitat͡ɕʲ/ === Verb === pytać impf (transitive or reflexive with się, attested in Greater Poland, Masovia) to ask (to request information or an answer to a question) [with genitive or od (+ genitive) ‘whom’; in addition, with genitive or accusative or o (+ accusative) ‘about what’; or with na (+ accusative) or o (+ locative) ‘about whom/what’; or with po (+ locative) ‘about whom’] (transitive or reflexive with się, attested in Masovia) to inquire; to research; to look for; to be interested in [with genitive or na (+ accusative) ‘whom/what’; or with o (+ locative) or po (+ locative) ‘what’] (transitive or reflexive with się, attested in Southern Borderlands, Masovia, Greater Poland) to ask for, to request [with accusative ‘whom’, along with genitive or o (+ accusative) or po (+ locative) ‘for what’] Synonym: prosić corruption of przyć ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== Polish: pytać Silesian: pytać === References === Boryś, Wiesław (2005), “pytać”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN Mańczak, Witold (2017), “pytać”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000), “pytać”, 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), “pytać (się)”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN == Polish == === Etymology === Inherited from Old Polish pytać. === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -ɘtat͡ɕ Syllabification: py‧tać === Verb === pytać impf (transitive or reflexive with się) to ask (to request information or an answer to a question) [with o (+ accusative) ‘about whom/what’] Synonym: zadawać pytanie (transitive, colloquial) to ask; to quiz (to check someone's knowledge) [with z (+ genitive) ‘in what’] (reflexive with się) to ask each other (to request information or an answer to a question from one another) [with o (+ accusative) ‘about whom/what’] (transitive or reflexive with się, chiefly in the negative, obsolete) to care about; to pay attention to (transitive, obsolete or expressive in Middle Polish, reflexive with się) to look for (to attempt to find) Synonym: szukać (transitive, Żywiec) to ask for, to request Synonym: prosić (intransitive, Przemyśl) synonym of uważać [with na (+ accusative) ‘what’] Ale on nie pyta na nic, ino idzie. ― He doesn't pay attention to anything, he just goes. (intransitive, obsolete) to invite oneself in Synonym: wpraszać się (Middle Polish) to ask; Further details are uncertain. ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === Trivia === According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), pytać is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 0 times in scientific texts, 1 time in news, 4 times in essays, 35 times in fiction, and 45 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 85 times, making it the 752nd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words. === References === === Further reading === “pytać”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎[20] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN “pytać się”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎[21] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN “pytać”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[22] (in Polish) Maria Renata Mayenowa; Stanisław Rospond; Witold Taszycki; Stefan Hrabec; Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023), “pytać”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish] Maria Renata Mayenowa; Stanisław Rospond; Witold Taszycki; Stefan Hrabec; Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023), “pytać się”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish] “PYTAĆ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 07.05.2021 “PYTAĆ%20SIĘ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 23.02.2015 Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814), “pytać”, in Słownik języka polskiego Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “pytać”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861 J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1912), “pytać”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 5, Warsaw, page 453 pytać in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego Leon Rzeszowski (1891), “pytać”, in “Spis wyrazów ludowych z okolic Żywca”, in Sprawozdania Komisyi Językowej Akademii Umiejętności‎[23], volume 4, Krakow: Drukarnia Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, page 358 Aleksander Saloni (1908), “pytać”, in “Lud rzeszowski”, in Materyały Antropologiczno-Archeologiczne i Etnograficzne‎[24] (in Polish), volume 10, Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, page 340 == Silesian == === Etymology === Inherited from Old Polish pytać. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈpɪ.tat͡ɕ/ Rhymes: -ɪtat͡ɕ Syllabification: py‧tać === Verb === pytać impf (transitive or reflexive with sie) to ask (to look for an answer to a question by speaking) ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === Further reading === pytac in dykcjonorz.eu pytać_sie in silling.org