See also: młodżiez

Old Polish edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *moldežь. By surface analysis, młody +‎ -eż. First attested in the end of the 15th century.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /mɫɔd͡ʑɛ(ː)ʃ/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /mɫɔd͡ʑɛʃ/, /mɫɔd͡ʑeʃ/

Noun edit

młodzież f

  1. young vine branches with fresh leaves
    • 1977 [End of the 15th century], “Vergili Georgicorum schedae Gnesnenses”, in Bogdanus Bolz, Wanda Żurowska-Górecka, editors, Symbolae Philologorum Posnaniensium, volume 3, page 86:
      Ac dum prima nouis adolescit, frondibus etas, mlod[z]yesz, parcendum teneris
      [Ac dum prima nouis adolescit, frondibus etas, młod[z]ież, parcendum teneris]

Descendants edit

  • Masurian: młodżiez
  • Polish: młodzież
  • Silesian: modziyż

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Etymology edit

Inherited from Old Polish młodzież. By surface analysis, młody +‎ -eż.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈmwɔ.d͡ʑɛʂ/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈmɫɔ.d͡ʑɛʂ/, /ˈmɫɔ.d͡ʑeʂ/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔd͡ʑɛʂ
  • Syllabification: mło‧dzież

Noun edit

młodzież f (related adjective młodzieżowy)

  1. (collective) youth (young people collectively)
    Synonym: młódź
  2. (collective) young trees collectively
  3. (collective) young animals collectively

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Trivia edit

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), młodzież is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 17 times in scientific texts, 64 times in news, 66 times in essays, 9 times in fiction, and 5 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 161 times, making it the 360th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

References edit

  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990), “młodzież”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków; Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 251

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