chłopiec

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See also: chłopieć

Old Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *xolpьсь. By surface analysis, chłop +‎ -ec. First attested in the 15th century.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

chłopiec m animacy unattested

  1. boy (young male person)

Descendants

  • Masurian: chłopsiec
  • Polish: chłopiec
  • Silesian: chopiec

References

Polish

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Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish chłopiec. By surface analysis, chłop +‎ -iec.

Pronunciation

Noun

chłopiec m pers (diminutive chłopczyk)

  1. boy (male child)
    Synonyms: chłopak, małolat, młodzieniec, młodzik, podrostek
    Coordinate terms: (by age) mężczyzna, (by gender) dziewczyna
  2. boy (male human offspring)
    Synonym: syn
  3. boy (young male person)
  4. boyfriend (romantic male partner)
    Synonym: (more common) chłopak
  5. (dated) boy (young male worker)
    Synonym: chłopak
  6. (colloquial) boy (male animal)

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Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), chłopiec is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 1 time in scientific texts, 14 times in news, 1 time in essays, 50 times in fiction, and 23 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling times, making it the 709th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

References

  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “chłopiec”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎ (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 47

Further reading

  • chłopiec in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • chłopiec in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “chłopiec”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  • Wiesław Morawski (24.04.2023) “CHŁOPIEC”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
  • Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “chłopiec”, in Słownik języka polskiego
  • Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “chłopiec”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
  • J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “chłopiec”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 284
  • chłopiec in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego