Polish

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Etymology

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From naród +‎ -owy. Compare Kashubian nôrodowi, and Silesian nŏrodowy. First attested in 1621.[1] Displaced narodny.

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -ɔvɘ
  • Syllabification: na‧ro‧do‧wy

Adjective

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narodowy (not comparable, derived adverb narodowo)

  1. (relational) national
    Antonym: antynarodowy

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Trivia

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According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), narodowy is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 31 times in scientific texts, 83 times in news, 165 times in essays, 4 times in fiction, and 3 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 286 times, making it the 176th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “narodowy”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego (in Polish)
  2. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “narodowy”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 272

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