więcej
Old Polish
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editInherited from Proto-Slavic *vęťьjь. Equivalent to an adverbial form of więcszy. First attested in the 14th century.
Pronunciation
editAdverb
editwięcej
- comparative degree of dużo or wiele; more
- in addition to that
- rather, actually, more accurately
Descendants
editReferences
edit- Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “więcej”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
- B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “więcej, więce”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN
Polish
editEtymology
editInherited from Old Polish więcej.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ˈvjɛn.t͡sɛj/
- (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈvjɛ̃.t͡sɛj/
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -ɛnt͡sɛj
- Syllabification: wię‧cej
Adverb
editwięcej
- comparative degree of dużo or wiele; more
Descendants
edit- → Belarusian: (dialectal) ве́нцэй (vjéncej)
Particle
editwięcej
- what is more
- Synonyms: co gorsza, co więcej, i to, mało tego, na dobitek, na dobitkę, na dodatek, na dokładkę, na domiar złego, nadto, ponadto, powiem więcej, poza tym, przy tym, w dodatku
Trivia
editAccording to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), więcej is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 69 times in scientific texts, 48 times in news, 59 times in essays, 56 times in fiction, and 74 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 306 times, making it the 165th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]
References
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- Rhymes:Polish/ɛnt͡sɛj
- Rhymes:Polish/ɛnt͡sɛj/2 syllables
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