niemal

Polish

Etymology

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Balto-Slavic *ne
Proto-Slavic *ne
Old Polish nie
Proto-Indo-European *(s)mel-der.
Proto-Balto-Slavic *mṓˀlas
Proto-Slavic *màlъ
Old Polish mały
Old Polish malem
univ.
Old Polish niemalemclip.
Polish niemal

    Clipping of Old Polish niemalem.

    Pronunciation

     
    • IPA(key): /ˈɲɛ.mal/
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    • Rhymes: -ɛmal
    • Syllabification: nie‧mal

    Particle

    niemal

    1. almost, nearly
      Synonyms: bez mała, jakby, niejako, nieledwie, niemalże, nieomal, nieomalże, prawie

    Derived terms

    particles

    Trivia

    According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), niemal is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 28 times in scientific texts, 12 times in news, 18 times in essays, 19 times in fiction, and 1 time in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 78 times, making it the 822nd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

    References

    1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990), “niemal”, 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 283

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