Niemiec
Polish
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *němьcь (“foreigner; German”, literally “a mute one”), from *němъ (“mute”). By surface analysis, niemy + -iec.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɲɛ.mjɛt͡s/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɛmjɛt͡s
- Syllabification: Nie‧miec
- Homophone: niemiec
Declension
Declension
Trivia
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
- Ida Kurcz (1990) “Niemiec”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 284
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