User talk:Profesjonalizm

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Again, welcome! --Rubbish computer (HALP!: I dropped the bass?) 23:51, 22 October 2015 (UTC)Reply

Hi Profesjonalizm! I've been appreciating all the work you've doing to add Polish vocabulary. As you seem to be the most active Pole around right now, I thought I'd ask you about a word I've been confused with. It seems to mean "well-born", apparently, but is this used as a noun to refer to nobles? It seems to be followed most commonly by pani, so is this the feminine form? I know rather little about Polish, but some of the Yiddish words I'm adding come from Polish. Dziękuję! —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 01:01, 12 February 2016 (UTC)Reply

@Metaknowledge: hey; wielmożna is a really dated word, a feminine form of adjective wielmożny. it used to mean that someone's a member of the upper class (not necessarily born into it), but today it is used only as a courtesy title (wielmożny pan, wielmożna pani), albeit very rarely. i've never seen it used yet, but the noun wielmożność exists - although this would probably translate as the quality of being wielmożny (or a super-formal style like your highness - wasza wielmożność - but then again, this will work in singular only), not nobility as a whole. as for etymology - i can only guess, and i'm not good at it - i'd split it in two: wiel- from wiele (a lot) and -możny from móc (able to do something); profesjonalizm • talk 12:12, 12 February 2016 (UTC)Reply

Ah, thank you very much. It adds to the confusion that Yiddish speakers in Poland don't seem to have been especially good at Polish. Also, is there a jaszna or similar that one could put before panie? —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 16:19, 12 February 2016 (UTC)Reply

@Metaknowledge: you're probably talking about jaśnie - jaśnie pan in masculine and jaśnie pani in feminine, no declension whatsoever profesjonalizm • talk 00:58, 16 February 2016 (UTC)Reply

OK, thank you. Yiddish has really made a mess of this, but I'll try to document it. Thank you for your help! —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 01:41, 16 February 2016 (UTC)Reply

For personal nouns in {{pl-noun}}, m-pr or f-pr should do the trick. --Lo Ximiendo (talk) 16:38, 5 March 2016 (UTC)Reply

@Lo Ximiendo: didn't know about that, will use from now on, thank you. profesjonalizm • talk 16:41, 5 March 2016 (UTC)Reply