lepszy

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Old Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lěpьšьjь, from Proto-Slavic *lěpъ. First attested in the 14th century..

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

lepszy

  1. comparative degree of dobry; better
    Antonym: gorszy

Descendants

  • Masurian: lepsÿ
  • Polish: lepszy
  • Silesian: lepszy

References

Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish lepszy.

Pronunciation

Adjective

lepszy

  1. comparative degree of dobry; better
    Antonym: gorszy

Declension

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Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), lepszy is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 27 times in scientific texts, 51 times in news, 78 times in essays, 35 times in fiction, and 50 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 241 times, making it the 224th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

References

  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “lepszy”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎ (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 216

Further reading

  • lepszy in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • lepszy in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “lepszy”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  • LEPSZY”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 2022 March 10
  • Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “lepszy”, in Słownik języka polskiego
  • Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “lepszy”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
  • J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1902), “lepszy”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 2, Warsaw, page 719

Silesian

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish lepszy.

Pronunciation

Adjective

lepszy

  1. comparative degree of dobry; better
    Antonym: gorszy

Further reading