See also: pomiedzy

Polish edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Univerbation of po +‎ między.[1] First attested in 1544.[2] Compare Kashubian pòmiedzë and Masurian poniéndzÿ.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /pɔˈmjɛn.d͡zɨ/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /pɔˈmjɛ̃.d͡zɨ/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛnd͡zɨ
  • Syllabification: po‧mię‧dzy

Preposition edit

pomiędzy

  1. denotes movement; to in between [+accusative]
    Synonym: między
    Antonym: spomiędzy
  2. denots location; between [+instrumental]
    Synonyms: między, pośród, śród, wpośród
  3. denotes objects mutually affected by something; between, among [+instrumental]
    Synonyms: między, na linii, wśród

Derived terms edit

nouns
prepositions

Trivia edit

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), pomiędzy is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 19 times in scientific texts, 15 times in news, 15 times in essays, 14 times in fiction, and 0 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 63 times, making it the 1044th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[3]

References edit

  1. ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “pomiędzy”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  2. ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “pomiedzy”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  3. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “pomiędzy”, 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 400

Further reading edit