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Niemiec

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See also: niemiec and niemieć

Polish

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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    Inherited from Proto-Slavic *němьcь. By surface analysis, niemy +‎ -iec.

    Alternative forms

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    Noun

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    Niemiec m pers (female equivalent Niemka)

    1. German (person from Germany)
      (dialectal) Miemiec
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    Proper noun

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    Niemiec m pers

    1. a male surname
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    Proper noun

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    Niemiec f (indeclinable)

    1. a female surname

    Etymology 2

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    See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

    Proper noun

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    Niemiec nvir pl

    1. genitive plural of Niemcy

    Trivia

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    According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), Niemiec is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 10 times in scientific texts, 2 times in news, 11 times in essays, 40 times in fiction, and 26 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 89 times, making it the 712th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

    References

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    1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990), “Niemiec”, 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 284

    Further reading

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    • Niemiec”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego[2] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
    • Niemiec”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN[3] (in Polish)
    • Niemiec”, in Internetowy słownik nazwisk w Polsce [Internet dictionary of surnames in Poland], 2025–2030