Niemiec

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See also: niemiec and niemieć

Polish

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Pronunciation

Etymology 1

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

Noun

Niemiec m pers (female equivalent Niemka)

  1. German (person from Germany)
    (dialectal) Miemiec
Declension
Declension of Niemiec
singular plural
nominative Niemiec Niemcy/Niemce (deprecative)
genitive Niemca Niemców
dative Niemcowi Niemcom
accusative Niemca Niemców
instrumental Niemcem Niemcami
locative Niemcu Niemcach
vocative Niemcze/Niemcu Niemcy
adjectives
nouns

Proper noun

Niemiec m pers

  1. a male surname
Declension
Declension of Niemiec
singular plural
nominative Niemiec Niemcowie
genitive Niemca Niemców
dative Niemcowi Niemcom
accusative Niemca Niemców
instrumental Niemcem Niemcami
locative Niemcu Niemcach
vocative Niemcze Niemcowie

Proper noun

Niemiec f (indeclinable)

  1. a female surname

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Proper noun

Niemiec nvir pl

  1. genitive plural of Niemcy

Trivia

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

  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

  • 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
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