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Polish
Etymology
Clipping of Old Polish niemalem.
Pronunciation
Particle
niemal
- almost, nearly
- Synonyms: bez mała, jakby, niejako, nieledwie, niemalże, nieomal, nieomalże, prawie
Derived terms
Trivia
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), niemal is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 28 times in scientific texts, 12 times in news, 18 times in essays, 19 times in fiction, and 1 time in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 78 times, making it the 822nd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.
References
- ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “niemal”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 283
Further reading
- niemal in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- niemal in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “niemal”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “niemal”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “niemal”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1904), “niemal”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 3, Warsaw, page 290