więcej
Appearance
Old Polish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Slavic *vęťьjь. Equivalent to an adverbial form of więcszy. First attested in the 14th century.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]więcej
- comparative degree of dużo or wiele; more
- in addition to that
- rather, actually, more accurately
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “więcej”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
- B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “więcej, więce”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN
Polish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Polish więcej.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]więcej
- comparative degree of dużo or wiele; more
Descendants
[edit]- → Belarusian: (dialectal) ве́нцэй (vjéncej)
Particle
[edit]więcej
- what is more
- Synonyms: co gorsza, co więcej, i to, mało tego, na dobitek, na dobitkę, na dodatek, na dokładkę, na domiar złego, nadto, ponadto, powiem więcej, poza tym, przy tym, w dodatku
Trivia
[edit]According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), więcej is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 69 times in scientific texts, 48 times in news, 59 times in essays, 56 times in fiction, and 74 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 306 times, making it the 165th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]
References
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- Old Polish lemmas
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- Polish terms inherited from Proto-Slavic
- Polish terms inherited from Old Polish
- Polish terms derived from Old Polish
- Polish 2-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Polish/ɛnt͡sɛj
- Rhymes:Polish/ɛnt͡sɛj/2 syllables
- Polish non-lemma forms
- Polish comparative adverbs
- Polish lemmas
- Polish particles