masowy

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Polish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From masa +‎ -owy.[1] First attested in 1682.[2] Compare Kashubian masowi and Silesian masowy.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /maˈsɔ.vɨ/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /maˈsɔ.vɨ/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔvɨ
  • Syllabification: ma‧so‧wy

Adjective[edit]

masowy (not generally comparable, comparative bardziej masowy, superlative najbardziej masowy, derived adverb masowo)

  1. massive (large in number or size)
  2. mass (intended for a large group of people)
  3. mass (treated as one part of a large group)
  4. mass (made of a large mass)
  5. (relational, not comparable, physics) mass

Declension[edit]

Derived terms[edit]

nouns

Trivia[edit]

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), masowy is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 12 times in scientific texts, 12 times in news, 30 times in essays, 3 times in fiction, and 1 time in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 58 times, making it the 1110th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[3]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “masowy”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  2. ^ Ewa Rodek (12.07.2019) “MASOWY”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
  3. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “masowy”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎[1] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 236

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