Niemiec

See also: niemiec and niemieć

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/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛmjɛt͡s
  • Syllabification: Nie‧miec
  • Homophone: niemiec

Noun

Niemiec m pers (female equivalent Niemka)

  1. German (German person)

Declension

adjective

Proper noun

Niemiec m pers

  1. a male surname

Declension

Proper noun

Niemiec f (indeclinable)

  1. a female surname

Proper noun

Niemiec pl

  1. genitive plural of Niemcy

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

  1. 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

Further reading

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