ogromny

See also: ogrómny

Polish

Alternative forms

• ohromny (Middle Polish)
• ogrómny (Far Masovian, Przasnysz)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₃ebʰi

Proto-Balto-Slavic *ab

Proto-Slavic *o(b)

Proto-Slavic *o(b)-

Old Polish o-

Proto-Indo-European *gʰrem-

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *gʰrómos

Proto-Slavic *gromъ

Old Polish grom

Proto-Indo-European *-yeti

Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti

Proto-Balto-Slavic *-éitei

Proto-Slavic *-iti

Old Polish -ić

Old Polish *gromić

Old Polish ogromić

Polish ogromićdeverb.

Polish ogrom

Proto-Indo-European *-nós

Proto-Balto-Slavic *-inas

Proto-Slavic *-ьnъ

Old Polish -ny

Polish -ny

Polish ogromny

From ogrom + -ny. First attested in 1558. Compare Czech ohromný.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ɔˈɡrɔm.nɘ/

• (Middle Polish) IPA^(key): /ɔˈɡrɔm.nɨ/
• (Lesser Poland):
  • (Western Kraków) IPA^(key): [ɔˈɡrɔm.nɘ]

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• Rhymes: -ɔmnɘ
• Syllabification: o‧grom‧ny

Adjective

ogromny (comparative ogromniejszy, superlative najogromniejszy, derived adverb ogromnie)

1. immense, huge (very large, intense, or broad)

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:duży

2. (Western Kraków, Sławków) rich; powerful

   kupiec ogromny ― rich merchant

3. (Middle Polish) wonderful; grand
4. (Middle Polish) very loud; thunderous
5. (Middle Polish) terrifying (causing fear)
6. (Middle Polish) off-putting; ugly
7. (Middle Polish) shameful, unworthy

Declension

Declension of ogromny (hard)

singular					plural
	masculine animate	masculine inanimate	feminine	neuter	virile (= masculine personal)	non-virile
nominative/vocative	ogromny		ogromna	ogromne	ogromni	ogromne
genitive	ogromnego		ogromnej	ogromnego	ogromnych
dative	ogromnemu		ogromnej	ogromnemu	ogromnym
accusative	ogromnego	ogromny	ogromną	ogromne	ogromnych	ogromne
instrumental	ogromnym		ogromną	ogromnym	ogromnymi
locative	ogromnym		ogromnej	ogromnym	ogromnych

Descendants

• → Kashubian: ògromny
• → Silesian: ôgrōmny

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), ogromny is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 23 times in scientific texts, 19 times in news, 33 times in essays, 15 times in fiction, and 9 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 99 times, making it the 637th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

Further reading

• “ogromny”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[2] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “ogromny”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[3] (in Polish)
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814), “ogromny”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “ogromny”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1904), “ogromny”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 3, Warsaw, page 720
• Jan Karłowicz (1903), “ogromny”, in Hieronim Łopaciński, Wacław Taczanowski, editors, Słownik gwar polskich [Dictionary of Polish dialects] (in Polish), volume 3: L do O, Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, page 421