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Old Polish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *vęťьjь. Equivalent to an adverbial form of więcszy. First attested in the 14th century.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /vjæ̃t͡sɛj/
- IPA(key): (15th CE) /vjæ̃t͡sɛj/
Adverb
więcej
- comparative degree of dużo or wiele; more
- in addition to that
- rather, actually, more accurately
Descendants
References
- Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “więcej”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
- B. Sieradzka-Baziur, editor (2011–2015), “więcej, więce”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN
Polish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Polish więcej.
Pronunciation
Adverb
więcej
- comparative degree of dużo or wiele; more
Particle
więcej
- what is more
- Synonyms: co gorsza, co więcej, i to, mało tego, na dobitek, na dobitkę, na dodatek, na dokładkę, na domiar złego, nadto, ponadto, powiem więcej, poza tym, przy tym, w dodatku
Trivia
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), więcej is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 69 times in scientific texts, 48 times in news, 59 times in essays, 56 times in fiction, and 74 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 306 times, making it the 165th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.
References
- ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “więcej”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 667
Further reading
- więcej in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- więcej in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- “WIĘCEJ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 2022 August 11