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. (attested in Masovia) boy (young male person)

Descendants

  • Polish: chłopiec
  • Silesian: chopiec

References

  • Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “chłopiec”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
  • Sławski, Franciszek (1958-1965) “chłopiec”, in Jan Safarewicz, Andrzej Siudut, editors, Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), Kraków: Towarzystwo Miłośników Języka Polskiego
  • Mańczak, Witold (2017) “chłopiec”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN
  • Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “chłopiec”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  • B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “chłopiec”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

Polish

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

 
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  • Rhymes: -ɔpjɛt͡s
  • Syllabification: chło‧piec

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.[1]

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

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