między
Polish
editAlternative forms
edit- miedzy, midzy, midz, mizdzy (Middle Polish)
Etymology
editInherited from Old Polish miedzy. The nasal vowel was added later due to the preceding m-.[1] Doublet of miedzy (locative of miedza).
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ˈmjɛn.d͡zɨ/
- (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈmjɛ̃.d͡zɨ/
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -ɛnd͡zɨ
- Syllabification: mię‧dzy
Preposition
editmiędzy
- denotes movement; to in between [with accusative]
- denotes location; between [with instrumental]
- denotes objects mutually affected by something; between, among [with instrumental]
- between (in transit from (one to the other, or connecting places)) [with instrumental]
- denotes result of division; between [with accusative]
- denotes individual of a group; among; between [with instrumental]
Related terms
editprefix
Trivia
editAccording to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), między is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 99 times in scientific texts, 101 times in news, 48 times in essays, 0 times in fiction, and 1 time in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 191 times, making it the 143rd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]
References
edit- ^ Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “między”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
- ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “między”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 245
Further reading
edit- między in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- między in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “miedzy, między, midzy, midz, mizdzy”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- Ewa Rodek (12.01.2022) “MIĘDZY”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “między”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “między”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1902), “między”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 2, Warsaw, page 968
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- Polish terms derived from Proto-Slavic
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- Polish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Polish terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Polish terms inherited from Old Polish
- Polish terms derived from Old Polish
- Polish doublets
- Polish 2-syllable words
- Polish terms with IPA pronunciation
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- Rhymes:Polish/ɛnd͡zɨ
- Rhymes:Polish/ɛnd͡zɨ/2 syllables
- Polish lemmas
- Polish prepositions
- Polish terms with secondary nasalization