start; beginning; commencement
~ działań wojennych - start of hostilities
~ kampanii wojennej - start of a military campaign
~ końca - beginning of the end
~ lata - early summer
~ układu współrzędnych - topogr. grid origin
~ wojny - beginning of a war
~ zachęcający - encouraging beginning
beginning, commencement, start, opening, outset
początek biegu przedawnienia: the moment from which prescription runspoczątek biegu terminu: the moment from which a time limit is imputedpoczątek dowodu na piśmie: commencement of a written proof
commencement
1. (the place where something begins, where it springs into being
"the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"
"Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"
 "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River"
 "communism's Russian root") 
beginning, origin, root, rootage, source 
2. (the time at which something is supposed to begin
 "they got an early start"
 "she knew from the get-go that he was the man for her") 
beginning, commencement, first, outset, get-go, start, kickoff, starting time, showtime, offset: : 
(rozpoczęcie) beginning, start
(pochodzenie, źródło) origin, beginning, source
od ~tku do końca from beginning/start to end/finish
 na ~tku at the beginning
 ~ końca the beginning of the end
 ~ rzeki the source of a river
 brać ~ to originate from
 n masc C 
1. (rozpoczęcie) beginning
start
commencement: na ~ to start with
 fora start
 na ~ku at the beginning
 od (samego) ~ku from the (very) beginning/start
 z ~ku at first
  od ~ku do końca from beginning to end
 from start to finish
 z ~kiem miesiąca from the beginning of the month. 
2. (źródło, przyczyna) origin
 source: brać ~ to originate (from/in)
 dać ~ czemuś to give rise to sth. 
3. pl ~ki  (podstawy) basics
 rudiments
 elements
m 
1. beginning, commencement 
2. start na ~ek for the start na ~ku at the outset, at the beginning na~ku sezonu at the outset of the season na ~ku przyszłego roku early next year, at the beginning of the next year na ~ku tego tygodnia early this week, earlier in the week zacząć od ~ku to start from the beginning
onset n origin n, stock n
start, beginning
INCEPTION
ONSET
OUTSET
ENTRY
FIRST
RISE
ORIGIN
ORIGINATION
INITIATION
START
opening, starting, beginning, commencement
m beginning
origin
na ~ek to start with
 na ~ku at the beginning, at the outset
beginning
beginning
rise
genesis
 origin
rudiment
opening
incipience
exordium
dawn
birth