mniejszy

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Old Polish

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Etymology

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From Proto-Slavic *mьňьjь +‎ -szy. First attested in the 14th century.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /mɲɛ(ː)ʃʲɨː/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /mɲɛʃʲɨ/, /mɲeʃʲɨ/

Adjective

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mniejszy

  1. comparative degree of mały

Descendants

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  • Polish: mniejszy
  • Silesian: myńszy

References

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Polish

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Polish mniejszy.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈmɲɛj.ʂɨ/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈmɲɛj.ʂɨ/, /ˈmɲej.ʂɨ/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛjʂɨ
  • Syllabification: mniej‧szy

Adjective

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mniejszy

  1. comparative degree of mały; smaller

Declension

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Derived terms

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verb

Trivia

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According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), mniejszy is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 56 times in scientific texts, 7 times in news, 21 times in essays, 9 times in fiction, and 8 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 101 times, making it the 622nd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

References

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  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “mniejszy”, 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 251

Further reading

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