Old Polish edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Slavic *mьňьjь +‎ -szy. First attested in the 14th century.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /mɲɛ(ː)ʃʲɨː/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /mɲɛʃʲɨ/, /mɲeʃʲɨ/

Adjective edit

mniejszy

  1. comparative degree of mały

Descendants edit

  • Polish: mniejszy
  • Silesian: myńszy

References edit

Polish edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Old Polish mniejszy.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɲɛj.ʂɨ/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈmɲɛj.ʂɨ/, /ˈmɲej.ʂɨ/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛjʂɨ
  • Syllabification: mniej‧szy

Adjective edit

mniejszy

  1. comparative degree of mały; smaller

Declension edit

Derived terms edit

verb

Trivia edit

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), mniejszy is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 56 times in scientific texts, 7 times in news, 21 times in essays, 9 times in fiction, and 8 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 101 times, making it the 622nd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

References edit

  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “mniejszy”, 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 251

Further reading edit