posiadać

From po- +‎ siadać. First attested in the end of the 15th century. Compare Old Czech posědati.

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

posiadać impf (perfective posieść)

1. to own, to possess
   • 1968 [End of the 15th century], Michał Muszyński, editor, Glosy, zapiski i niektóre teksty polskie w starych drukach i rękopisach Biblioteki Kórnickiej do roku 1550, cz. II‎, volume II, page 203:

     Vsurpat vlg. possyada

     [Vsurpat vlg. posiada]

• Masurian: posziadacz
• Polish: posiadać
• Silesian: posiadać

• Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “posiadać”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
• B. Sieradzka-Baziur, editor (2011–2015), “posiadać”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

Inherited from Old Polish posiadać. By surface analysis, po- +‎ siadać. Compare Kashubian pòsadac.

• IPA^(key): /pɔˈɕa.dat͡ɕ/
• (Middle Polish) IPA^(key): /pɔˈɕa.dat͡ɕ/

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• Rhymes: -adat͡ɕ
• Syllabification: po‧sia‧dać

posiadać impf

1. (transitive, literary) to own, to possess (to have in one's possession something valuable or important)

   Synonym: mieć

2. (transitive, literary) to possess (to have some ability or knowledge)

   Synonym: mieć

   Jednostki naziemne w tej grze posiadają umiejętność okopywania. ― Ground units in this game have the ability to trench.

3. (transitive, literary, proscribed, of objects, places, etc.) to have; to own, to possess (to contain or have as a piece of oneself)

   Synonym: mieć

4. (transitive, literary) to possess (to have something that enables meaningful action)

   Synonym: mieć

5. (transitive, literary) to possess (to be characterized by something)

   Synonym: mieć

6. (reflexive with się) to be owned, to be possessed
7. (reflexive with się, oboslete, now usually negated) to control oneself

Many language institutions advise against using this word for smaller, everyday objects.

posiadać pf

1. (intransitive, of many people) to sit down one after another

   Synonym: pousiadać

2. (intransitive, of birds or other flying creatures) to sit down one after another (to stop somewhere, to cease to fly) [+ na (locative) = on what]

   Synonyms: nasiadać, pousiadać, usiąść

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), posiadać is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 44 times in scientific texts, 25 times in news, 43 times in essays, 7 times in fiction, and 3 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 122 times, making it the 494th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

• posiadać in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• posiadać in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “posiadać”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
• “POSIADAĆ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 08.01.2009
• Paweł Kupiszewski (31.10.2019) “POSIADAĆ%20SIĘ”, 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) “posiadać”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “posiadać”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861‎
• A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1908), “posiadać”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎ (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw, page 737
• posiadać in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego

Inherited from Old Polish siadać. By surface analysis, po- +‎ siadać.

• IPA^(key): /pɔˈɕadat͡ɕ/
• Rhymes: -adat͡ɕ
• Syllabification: po‧sia‧dać

posiadać impf

1. (transitive) to own, to possess

• posiadać in silling.org