Niemiec
Polish edit
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)
- German (German person)
Declension edit
Declension of Niemiec
Related terms edit
adjective
Proper noun edit
Niemiec m pers
- a male surname
Declension edit
Declension of Niemiec
Proper noun edit
Niemiec f (indeclinable)
- a female surname
Proper noun edit
Niemiec pl
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]