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English
Noun
inny (plural innies)
- Alternative form of innie
Old Polish
Pronunciation
Adjective
inny
- Alternative form of iny
Polish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Polish iny, extended with -ny,[1] perhaps under influence of adjectives such as dzienny or brzemienny.[2]
Pronunciation
Adjective
inny (not generally comparable, comparative bardziej inny, superlative najbardziej inny, no derived adverb)
- different, another, other (not the same)
- Antonym: ten sam
- different, another, other (having traits that makes oneself different to the other)
- Synonym: różny
- Antonyms: identyczny, taki sam, ten sam
- different, another, other (having undergone change)
- Antonyms: taki sam, ten sam
Declension
Declension of inny (hard)
Derived terms
Trivia
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), inny is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 236 times in scientific texts, 124 times in news, 238 times in essays, 136 times in fiction, and 163 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 897 times, making it the 44th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[3]
References
- ^ Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “inny”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
- ^ Sławski, Franciszek (1958-1965) “inny”, in Jan Safarewicz, Andrzej Siudut, editors, Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), Kraków: Towarzystwo Miłośników Języka Polskiego
- ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “inny”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 152
Further reading
- inny in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- inny in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “iny, inny”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- “INNY”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 2017 November 6
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “inny”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “inny”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1902), “inny”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 2, Warsaw, page 96
- Brückner, Aleksander (1927) “inny”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna
- inny in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego