ubiegły

Polish

Etymology

From ubiec + -ły. First attested in 1688.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /uˈbjɛɡ.wɨ/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /uˈbjɛɡ.ɫɨ/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛɡwɨ
  • Syllabification: u‧bieg‧ły

Adjective

ubiegły (not comparable, no derived adverb)

  1. (literary) last, bypast, previous (most recent)
    Synonyms: miniony, poprzedni, zeszły

Declension

Verb

ubiegły

  1. third-person plural nonvirile past of ubiec

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), ubiegły is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 6 times in scientific texts, 74 times in news, 46 times in essays, 1 time in fiction, and 0 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 127 times, making it the 471st most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]

References

  1. Aleksandra Wieczorek (16.09.2018) “UBIEGŁY”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
  2. Ida Kurcz (1990) “ubiegły”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 619

Further reading

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