Kashubian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *mǫ̑žь.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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mąż m pers

  1. (rare) man (male human)
    Synonym: chłop
  2. (rare) husband
    Synonym: chłop

Further reading

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  • Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “mąż”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi[1]
  • mąż”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka, Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

Old Polish

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *mǫ̑žь. First attested in the first half of the 14th century.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /mɑ̃ʃ/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /mɑ̃ʃ/

Noun

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mąż m animacy unattested (related adjective męski or mężny or mężowy)

  1. (attested in Lesser Poland) man (human; person; male person)
  2. (attested in Sieradz-Łęczyca) husband
    • 1897 [1393], Teki Adolfa Pawińskiego[3], volume IV, number 4543, Łęczyca Land:
      Sicut Streczka strauila s tim dzedzødzem, czso bilo po møszu ostalo
      [Sicut Streczka strawiła z tym dziecięciem, cso było po mężu ostało]

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Descendants

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  • Polish: mąż
  • Silesian: mōnż

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Polish

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Polish mąż. Cognate with English man.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈmɔw̃ʂ/, /ˈmɔnʂ/
  • Audio 1:(file)
  • Audio 2:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔw̃ʂ
  • Syllabification: mąż

Noun

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mąż m pers (diminutive mężulek or mężuś or mężunio, augmentative mężysko, related adjective mężowski or mężowy)

  1. husband (married male partner)
    Synonyms: małżonek, stary, ślubny
  2. (literary) man (highly regarded male)
  3. (obsolete) man (male human)
  4. (Middle Polish) male (male adult specimen of a species)
    Synonym: samiec

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Trivia

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According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), mąż is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 2 times in scientific texts, 8 times in news, 2 times in essays, 41 times in fiction, and 50 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 103 times, making it the 605th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

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  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “mąż”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 238

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