amerykański

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Polish

Etymology

From Amerykanin +‎ -ski. First attested in 1756.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /a.mɛ.rɘˈkaɲ.ski/
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  • Rhymes: -aɲski
  • Syllabification: a‧me‧ry‧kań‧ski

Adjective

amerykański (not comparable, no derived adverb)

  1. (relational) American

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Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), amerykański is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 28 times in scientific texts, 114 times in news, 40 times in essays, 13 times in fiction, and 4 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 199 times, making it the 275th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]

References

  1. ^ Włodzimierz Gruszczyński (26.01.2015) “AMERYKAŃSKI”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
  2. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “amerykański”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 7

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