English edit

Noun edit

inny (plural innies)

  1. Alternative form of innie

Old Polish edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /innɨː/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /innɨ/

Adjective edit

inny

  1. Alternative form of iny

Polish edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Old Polish iny, extended with -ny,[1] perhaps under influence of adjectives such as dzienny or brzemienny.[2]

Pronunciation edit

Adjective edit

inny (not generally comparable, comparative bardziej inny, superlative najbardziej inny, no derived adverb)

  1. different, another, other (not the same)
    Antonym: ten sam
  2. different, another, other (having traits that makes oneself different to the other)
    Synonym: różny
    Antonyms: identyczny, taki sam, ten sam
  3. different, another, other (having undergone change)
    Antonyms: taki sam, ten sam

Declension edit

Derived terms edit

adjective/adverb/particle

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Trivia edit

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), inny is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 236 times in scientific texts, 124 times in news, 238 times in essays, 136 times in fiction, and 163 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 897 times, making it the 44th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[3]

References edit

  1. ^ Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “inny”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
  2. ^ Sławski, Franciszek (1958-1965) “inny”, in Jan Safarewicz, Andrzej Siudut, editors, Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), Kraków: Towarzystwo Miłośników Języka Polskiego
  3. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “inny”, 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 152

Further reading edit