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Polish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Polish więcszy, with a sound shift of tsz -> csz -> ksz.[1]
Pronunciation
Adjective
większy
- comparative degree of wielki
- comparative degree of duży
Declension
Declension of większy (hard)
Derived terms
Trivia
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), większy is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 145 times in scientific texts, 73 times in news, 100 times in essays, 38 times in fiction, and 38 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 394 times, making it the 123rd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]
References
- ^ Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “większy”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
- ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “większy”, 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
- większy in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Wiesław Morawski (11.08.2022) “WIĘKSZY”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]