wyrazowy

Wyrazowy is an adjective in Polish meaning “word-related” or “lexical.” It is formed from the noun wyraz (word) with the suffix -owy, a productive pattern in Polish for creating adjectives that denote characteristic or relation. The term is primarily used in linguistic, lexicographic, and computational contexts, and is less common in everyday speech.

In linguistic and dictionary-style usage, wyrazowy describes features tied to individual words or their forms rather than to sentences or broader discourse. Common expressions include forma wyrazowa, referring to the word’s form, and odmiana wyrazowa, indicating its inflectional variant. The phrase słownik wyrazowy may appear in discussions of lexicons or dictionaries that emphasize lexical entries and word-level information. In corpus linguistics and natural language processing, wyrazowy analysis or labeling is used to denote operations performed at the level of tokens, lemmas, or word forms, as opposed to higher-level syntactic structures.

The term is related to, but distinct from, broader concepts such as morfologia (morphology) and leksykologia (lexicology). While wyrazowy focuses on words themselves, these related fields examine how words are formed, stored, and used within larger language systems. Etymologically, wyrazowy derives from wyraz with the productive adjectival suffix -owy, aligning with other Polish adjectives that express a characteristic or relation.

See also: wyraz, forma podstawowa, lemma, morfologia, leksykologia, słownik.