Niemiec

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See also: niemiec and niemieć

Polish

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Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pl

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *němьcь. By surface analysis, niemy +‎ -iec.

Noun

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Niemiec m pers (female equivalent Niemka)

  1. German (person from Germany)
    (dialectal) Miemiec
Declension
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adjectives
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Proper noun

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Niemiec m pers

  1. a male surname
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Proper noun

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Niemiec f (indeclinable)

  1. a female surname

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Proper noun

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Niemiec nvir pl

  1. genitive plural of Niemcy

Trivia

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According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), Niemiec is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 10 times in scientific texts, 2 times in news, 11 times in essays, 40 times in fiction, and 26 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 89 times, making it the 712th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

References

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  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “Niemiec”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 284

Further reading

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  • Niemiec in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • Niemiec in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Niemiec”, in Internetowy słownik nazwisk w Polsce [Internet dictionary of surnames in Poland], 2022