wiejski

See also: Wiejski

Polish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From wieś + -ski.[1][2] First attested in the 16th century.[3] Displaced wieśny. Compare Kashubian wiesczi, Silesian wiejski, and Slovincian wjêskjy.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈvjɛj.ski/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈvjɛj.ski/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛjski
  • Syllabification: wiej‧ski
  • Homophone: Wiejski

Adjective

wiejski (not generally comparable, comparative bardziej wiejski, superlative najbardziej wiejski, derived adverb wiejsko or z wiejska)

  1. (relational, not comparable) rural (of or relating to a village)
    Coordinate term: miejski
  2. (relational, not comparable) rural (of or relating to the inhabitants of a village)
  3. (relational, not comparable) rural (being outside a city)
  4. (colloquial, derogatory) unsophisticated

Declension

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), wiejski is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 3 times in scientific texts, 21 times in news, 38 times in essays, 10 times in fiction, and 0 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 72 times, making it the 901st most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[4]

References

  1. Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “wieś”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
  2. Mańczak, Witold (2017) “wieś”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN
  3. Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “wiejski”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  4. Ida Kurcz (1990) “wiejski”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 664

Further reading

Silesian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From wieś + -ski. Compare Polish wiejski.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈvjɛjski/
  • Rhymes: -ɛjski
  • Syllabification: wiej‧ski

Adjective

wiejski (not comparable)

  1. (relational) rural (of or relating to a village)

Declension

Further reading

  • wiejski in silling.org
  • Henryk Jaroszewicz (2022) “wiejskŏ”, in Zasady pisowni języka śląskiego (in Polish), Siedlce: Wydawnictwo Naukowe IKR[i]BL, page 150
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