pełnia

See also: pełniá and pełnią

Old Polish

Etymology

From pełny + -a. First attested in the end of the 15th century.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /pɛɫɲa/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /pɛɫɲa/

Noun

pełnia f

  1. full moon
    • 1921 [End of the 15th century], Slavia Occidentalis, volume XXXIV, page 162:
      Tacz panna... szlyczną yako myeszyącz w pelny
      [Tać panna... śliczna jako miesiąc w pełni]

Descendants

  • Masurian: pełniá
  • Polish: pełnia

References

Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish pełnia. By surface analysis, pełny + -a. Compare Belarusian поўня (póŭnja), Kashubian pôłniô, Silesian połniŏ, Ukrainian по́вня (póvnja), Carpathian Rusyn повня (povnja).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɛw.ɲa/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈpɛɫ.ɲɒ/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛwɲa
  • Syllabification: peł‧nia

Noun

pełnia f

  1. fullness (state in which nothing is missing)
  2. apex, apogee (highest degree or intensity)
  3. full moon (phase of the moon when it is in opposition to the sun and its full disc is therefore visible)
    Coordinate term: nów
  4. full moon (moon when it is in opposition to the sun)
    Coordinate term: nów
  5. (obsolete) whole number; complete set
  6. (obsolete) open water (wide, far off water as opposed to water by the shore)

Declension

Derived terms

adverbs

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), pełnia is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 18 times in scientific texts, 17 times in news, 36 times in essays, 3 times in fiction, and 4 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 78 times, making it the 824th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

References

  1. Ida Kurcz (1990), pełnia”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków; Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 361

Further reading

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