wiele

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Afrikaans

Noun

wiele

  1. plural of wiel

Kashubian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *velьjь.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈvʲiɛ.lʲɛ/
  • Syllabification: wie‧le

Numeral

wiele (comparative wiãcy, comparative wicy, superlative nôwiãcy, superlative nôwicy)

  1. many, much
  2. (interrogative) how many? how much?

Further reading

  • Stefan Ramułt (1893) “vjele”, in Słownik języka pomorskiego czyli kaszubskiego (in Kashubian), page 253
  • Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “wiele”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi, volume 2, page 1285
  • wiele”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

Old Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *velьjь. First attested in the 14th century.

Pronunciation

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

Pronoun

wiele

  1. many, much
  2. (interrogative) how many? how much?

Descendants

  • Masurian: ziele
  • Polish: wiele
  • Silesian: wiele

References

Polish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish wiele.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈvjɛ.lɛ/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈvjɛ.lɛ/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛlɛ
  • Syllabification: wie‧le

Numeral

wiele (comparative więcej, superlative najwięcej)

  1. many, much
    Synonyms: dużo, mnóstwo, sporo, multum
    Antonyms: niewiele, niedużo, mało

Declension

Derived terms

particle
prefix

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), wiele is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 111 times in scientific texts, 125 times in news, 129 times in essays, 45 times in fiction, and 14 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 424 times, making it the 111th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), wiele is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 16 times in scientific texts, 2 times in news, 20 times in essays, 18 times in fiction, and 6 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 62 times, making it the 1065th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

Particle

wiele

  1. a lot, much, a great deal

References

  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “wiele”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎ (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 664
  2. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “wiele”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎ (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 664

Further reading

  • wiele in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • wiele in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “wiele”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  • Paweł Kupiszewski (12.09.2022) “WIELE”, 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) “wiele”, in Słownik języka polskiego
  • Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “wiele”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
  • J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1919), “wiele”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 7, Warsaw, page 566

Silesian

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish wiele.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈvjɛlɛ/
  • Rhymes: -ɛlɛ
  • Syllabification: wie‧le

Numeral

wiele (comparative wiyncyj, superlative nejwiyncyj)

  1. many, much
    Synonyms: moc, siyła, dużo, (Cieszyń) godnie, hurma, mocka, (Cieszyń) norymnie, połno
    Antonyms: mało, niewiele

Further reading