miłość

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Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish miłość, from Proto-Slavic *milostь, from *milъ (sweet, dear) + *-ostь. By surface analysis, miły +‎ -ość.

Pronunciation

 
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  • Rhymes: -iwɔɕt͡ɕ
  • Syllabification: mi‧łość

Noun

miłość f

  1. love

Declension

Further reading

  • miłość in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • miłość in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Wanda Decyk-Zięba, editor (2018-2022), “miłość”, in Dydaktyczny Słownik Etymologiczno-historyczny Języka Polskiego [A Didactic, Historical, Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), →ISBN
  • Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “miłość”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  • MIŁOŚĆ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 2022 January 7