znaczny

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Kashubian

Etymology

From znaczëc +‎ -ny. Compare Polish znaczny.

Pronunciation

Adjective

znaczny (not comparable, no derived adverb)

  1. significant, considerable

Declension

Further reading

  • Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “znaczny”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi

Polish

Etymology

From znaczyć +‎ -ny. First attested in the 16th century.[1] Compare Kashubian znaczny and Silesian znaczny.

Pronunciation

 
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  • Rhymes: -at͡ʂnɘ
  • Syllabification: znacz‧ny

Adjective

znaczny (comparative znaczniejszy, superlative najznaczniejszy, derived adverb znacznie)

  1. significant, considerable (reasonably large in number or amount)
    Near-synonym: duży
  2. significant, meaningful (having a noticeable or major effect)
    Synonyms: walny, ważny
  3. significant, meaningful (distinguished somehow)

Declension

Derived terms

adjective
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Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), znaczny is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 29 times in scientific texts, 19 times in news, 32 times in essays, 5 times in fiction, and 1 time in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 86 times, making it the 749th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]

References

  1. ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “znaczny”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  2. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “znaczny”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 780

Further reading

Silesian

Etymology

From znaczyć +‎ -ny. Compare Polish znaczny.

Pronunciation

Adjective

znaczny (derived adverb znacznie)

  1. significant, considerable
  2. respectable, reputable; esteemed

Declension

Further reading