wieś

== Old Polish == === Etymology === Inherited from Proto-Slavic *vь̀sь. First attested in 1249. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /vʲɛɕ/ IPA(key): (15th CE) /vʲɛɕ/ === Noun === wieś f (diminutive wioska, related adjective wieśny) (attested in Greater Poland) village (rural municipality) (poetic) land; region (demonym, attested in Masovia) village (inhabitants of such a place) (attested in Lesser Poland) corruption of wep ==== Related terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== Polish: wieś Silesian: wieś === References === Boryś, Wiesław (2005), “wieś”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN Bożena Sieradzka-Baziur, et al., editors (2011–2015), “wieś”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN == Polish == === Etymology === Inherited from Old Polish wieś. === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -ɛɕ Syllabification: wieś Homophones: Wieś, wieź === Noun === wieś f (diminutive wioska, augmentative wiocha or (dialectal) wsina, related adjective wiejski or (obsolete) wsiowy or (obsolete) wieśny or (rare) wsiański, abbreviation w.) countryside (country, rural area, as opposed to the town or city) village (small municipality) (demonym) village (residents of such a place) Synonyms: (literary) sioło, (obsolete) wieśnica (colloquial) boorish behavior ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== === Trivia === According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), wieś is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 18 times in scientific texts, 28 times in news, 92 times in essays, 48 times in fiction, and 26 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 212 times, making it the 264th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words. === References === === Further reading === “wieś”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎[4] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN “wieś”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[5] (in Polish) Maria Renata Mayenowa; Stanisław Rospond; Witold Taszycki; Stefan Hrabec; Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023), “wieś”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish] “WIEŚ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 21.07.2022 Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814), “wieś”, in Słownik języka polskiego Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “wieś”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861 J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1919), “wieś”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 7, Warsaw, page 594 == Silesian == === Etymology === Inherited from Old Polish wieś. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈvjɛɕ/ Rhymes: -ɛɕ Syllabification: wieś === Noun === wieś f (diminutive wiŏska, related adjective wiejski) village (small municipality) Synonym: dziedzina countryside (area outside a city) ==== Declension ==== ==== Related terms ==== === Further reading === wies in dykcjonorz.eu wieś in silling.org