wzajemny

Old Polish

Etymology

From wzajem + -ny. First attested in the middle of the 15th century.

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

wzajemny (derived adverb wzajemno or wzajemnie)

  1. mutual, reciprocal (given to each other, shown in both directions)
    • 1874-1891 [Middle of the 15th century], Rozprawy i Sprawozdania z Posiedzeń Wydziału Filologicznego Akademii Umiejętności, volume XXIV, page 368:
      Nam ad portam visus ponenda est custodia, id est paccio mutua, lubyenye wzayemne, quia cor et oculi debent pactum ad invicem habere
      [Nam ad portam visus ponenda est custodia, id est paccio mutua, lubienie wzajemne, quia cor et oculi debent pactum ad invicem habere]

Derived terms

nouns
  • wzajemność
nouns

Descendants

  • Polish: wzajemny
  • Silesian: wzajymny

References

Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish wzajemny. By surface analysis, wzajem + -ny.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vzaˈjɛm.nɨ/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /vzaˈjɛm.nɨ/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛmnɨ
  • Syllabification: wza‧jem‧ny

Adjective

wzajemny (not comparable, derived adverb wzajemnie)

  1. mutual, reciprocal (having the same relationship, performed each to each other)
  2. (obsolete, mathematics) correlative
    Synonym: korelatywny

Declension

Derived terms

noun
verbs

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), wzajemny is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 16 times in scientific texts, 13 times in news, 18 times in essays, 7 times in fiction, and 2 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 56 times, making it the 1162nd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

References

  1. Ida Kurcz (1990) “wzajemny”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 718

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