Niemiec

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See also: niemiec and niemieć

Polish[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *němьcь (foreigner; German, literally a mute one), from *němъ (mute). By surface analysis, niemy +‎ -iec.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

Niemiec m pers (female equivalent Niemka)

  1. German (German person)

Declension[edit]

Related terms[edit]

adjective

Proper noun[edit]

Niemiec m pers

  1. a male surname

Declension[edit]

Proper noun[edit]

Niemiec f (indeclinable)

  1. a female surname

Proper noun[edit]

Niemiec pl

  1. genitive plural of Niemcy

Trivia[edit]

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), Niemiec is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 10 times in scientific texts, 2 times in news, 11 times in essays, 40 times in fiction, and 26 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 89 times, making it the 712th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “Niemiec”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎[1] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 284

Further reading[edit]

  • Niemiec in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • Niemiec in Polish dictionaries at PWN