See also: mòrze, morzę, mòrzé, and morże

Old Polish

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *moře. First attested in the 14th century.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /mɔr̝ɛ/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /mɔr̝ɛ/

Noun

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morze n (related adjective morski)

  1. (attested in Lesser Poland) sea; lake (large body of water)

Descendants

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  • Masurian: morże
  • Polish: morze
  • Silesian: morze

References

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Polish

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Inherited from Old Polish morze.

Noun

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morze n (related adjective morski)

  1. sea (large body of water)
  2. (figuratively) sea (large amount of something)
Declension
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Derived terms
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verbs

Trivia

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According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), morze is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 31 times in scientific texts, 12 times in news, 4 times in essays, 14 times in fiction, and 22 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 83 times, making it the 768th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

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morze f

  1. dative/locative singular of mora

Noun

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morze m

  1. locative/vocative singular of mór

References

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  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “morze”, 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 255

Further reading

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  • morze in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • morze in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “morze”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  • MORZE”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 07.07.2022
  • Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “morze”, in Słownik języka polskiego[4]
  • Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “morze”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861[5]
  • J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1902), “morze”, in Słownik języka polskiego[6] (in Polish), volume 2, Warsaw, page 1045

Silesian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Polish morze.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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morze n (related adjective morski)

  1. sea (large body of water)
  2. (figuratively) sea (large amount of something)
    Synonyms: siyła, moc, mocka

Declension

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Further reading

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