chłopiec

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See also: chłopieć

Old Polish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *xolpьсь. By surface analysis, chłop +‎ -ec. First attested in the 15th century.

Pronunciation[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

chłopiec m animacy unattested

  1. boy (young male person)

Descendants[edit]

  • Masurian: chłopsiec
  • Polish: chłopiec
  • Silesian: chopiec

References[edit]

Polish[edit]

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Old Polish chłopiec. By surface analysis, chłop +‎ -iec.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

chłopiec m pers (diminutive chłopczyk)

  1. boy (male child)
    Synonyms: chłopak, małolat, młodzieniec, młodzik, podrostek
    Coordinate terms: (by age) mężczyzna, (by gender) dziewczyna
  2. boy (male human offspring)
    Synonym: syn
  3. boy (young male person)
  4. boyfriend (romantic male partner)
    Synonym: (more common) chłopak
  5. (dated) boy (young male worker) [+ na (accusative) = for what job]
    Synonym: chłopak
  6. (colloquial) boy (male animal)

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Trivia[edit]

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), chłopiec is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 1 time in scientific texts, 14 times in news, 1 time in essays, 50 times in fiction, and 23 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling times, making it the 709th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990), “chłopiec”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków; Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 47

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