zagraniczny

Polish

Etymology

From za granicą + -ny.[1][2] First attested in the 16th century.[3]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /za.ɡraˈɲit͡ʂ.nɨ/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /za.ɡraˈɲit͡ʂ.nɨ/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -it͡ʂnɨ
  • Syllabification: za‧gra‧nicz‧ny

Adjective

zagraniczny (not comparable, derived adverb (colloquial or jocular) po zagranicznemu)

  1. foreign (located outside a country or place, especially one's own)
  2. foreign (originating from, characteristic of, belonging to, or being a citizen of a country or place other than the one under discussion)
    Synonyms: cudzoziemski, obcy
  3. (relational) foreign (relating to a different nation)

Declension

Descendants

  • Kashubian: zagrańczny (calque)
  • Silesian: zagraniczny

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), zagraniczny is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 8 times in scientific texts, 85 times in news, 47 times in essays, 4 times in fiction, and 1 time in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 145 times, making it the 403rd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[4]

References

  1. Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “granica”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
  2. Mańczak, Witold (2017) “granica”, 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) “zagraniczny”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  4. Ida Kurcz (1990) “zagraniczny”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 731

Further reading

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