między

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See also: miedzy and między-

Polish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish miedzy. The nasal vowel was added later due to the preceding m-. Doublet of miedzy (locative of miedza).

Pronunciation

Preposition

między

  1. denotes movement; to in between
    Synonym: pomiędzy
    Antonym: spomiędzy
  2. denots location; between
    Synonyms: pomiędzy, pośród, śród, wpośród
  3. denotes objects mutually affected by something; between, among
    Synonyms: pomiędzy, na linii, wśród
  4. between (in transit from (one to the other, or connecting places))
  5. denotes result of division; between
  6. denotes individual of a group; among; between

Related terms

prefix

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), między is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 99 times in scientific texts, 101 times in news, 48 times in essays, 0 times in fiction, and 1 time in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 191 times, making it the 143rd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

References

  1. ^ Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “między”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
  2. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “między”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎ (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 245

Further reading

  • między in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • między in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “miedzy, między, midzy, midz, mizdzy”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  • Ewa Rodek (12.01.2022) “MIĘDZY”, 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) “między”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎
  • Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “między”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861‎
  • J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1902), “między”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎ (in Polish), volume 2, Warsaw, page 968
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