zwierzę
Appearance
Polish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Middle Polish) IPA(key): (16th c.) /ˈzvjɛ.r̝ɛ̃/, (17th–18th c.) /ˈzvjɛ.ʐɛ̃/, (16th c.) /ˈzvje.r̝ɛ̃/, (17th–18th c.) /ˈzvje.ʐɛ̃/
Audio 1: (file) Audio 2: (file) Audio 3: (file) - Rhymes: -ɛʐɛw̃
- Syllabification: zwie‧rzę
- Homophone: zwierze
Etymology 1
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Inherited from Old Polish źwierzę. By surface analysis, zwierz + -ę.
Noun
[edit]zwierzę n (diminutive zwierzątko, related adjective zwierzęcy)
- animal (member of the kingdom Animalia other than a human)
- 2021 July 1, Hanna Mamzer, Paweł Nowak, “Przeciwdziałanie bezdomności zwierząt jako problem społeczny [Combating animal homelessness as a social problem]”, in Ruch Prawniczy, Ekonomiczny i Socjologiczny[2], volume 3, , →ISSN, page 348:
- Samorządy z tego samego powodu, dla którego wolą truć szczurze populacje, zamiast zapobiegać ich rozmnażaniu antykoncepcją, wolą unikać oferowania programów sterylizacji/kastracji zwierząt właścicielskich.
- For the same reason that local governments prefer to poison rat populations rather than prevent their reproduction with contraception, they prefer to avoid offering sterilization/castration programs for owner-owned animals.
- (biology) animal (eukaryote of the clade Animalia; a multicellular organism that is usually mobile, whose cells are not encased in a rigid cell wall (distinguishing it from plants and fungi) and which derives energy solely from the consumption of other organisms (distinguishing it from plants))
- (colloquial) beast (person who has a set of characteristics that make him or her function well in a particular environment)
- Synonym: zwierz
- (colloquial, derogatory) animal (person who behaves wildly)
Declension
[edit]Declension of zwierzę
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | zwierzę | zwierzęta |
| genitive | zwierzęcia | zwierząt |
| dative | zwierzęciu | zwierzętom |
| accusative | zwierzę | zwierzęta |
| instrumental | zwierzęciem | zwierzętami |
| locative | zwierzęciu | zwierzętach |
| vocative | zwierzę | zwierzęta |
Derived terms
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Trivia
[edit]According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), zwierzę is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 66 times in scientific texts, 11 times in news, 3 times in essays, 8 times in fiction, and 14 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 102 times, making it the 621st most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]
Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
[edit]zwierzę pf
References
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “zwierzę”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego[3] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- “zwierzę”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN[4] (in Polish)
- Maria Renata Mayenowa; Stanisław Rospond; Witold Taszycki; Stefan Hrabec; Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023), “zwierzę”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- “ZWIERZĘ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 05.11.2016
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814), “zwierzę”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “zwierzę”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1927), “zwierzę”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 8, Warsaw, page 648
Categories:
- Polish 2-syllable words
- Polish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Middle Polish
- Polish terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:Polish/ɛʐɛw̃
- Rhymes:Polish/ɛʐɛw̃/2 syllables
- Polish terms with homophones
- Polish terms derived from Proto-Slavic
- Polish terms derived from Proto-Balto-Slavic
- Polish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ǵʰwer-
- Polish terms inherited from Old Polish
- Polish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Polish terms derived from Old Polish
- Polish terms inherited from Proto-Slavic
- Polish terms suffixed with -ę
- Polish lemmas
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