miejski

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Polish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Polish miejscski. By surface analysis, miasto +‎ -ski. Compare Czech městský and Kashubian miesczi.

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -ɛjski
  • Syllabification: miej‧ski

Adjective

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miejski (not comparable, no derived adverb)

  1. (relational) city; urban
    Coordinate term: wiejski
  2. (relational, Middle Polish) state
    Synonym: państwowy

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Trivia

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According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), miejski is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 14 times in scientific texts, 49 times in news, 35 times in essays, 8 times in fiction, and 0 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 106 times, making it the 587th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

References

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  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “miejski”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 243

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