możliwy

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Polish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From móc +‎ -liwy.[1] First attested in 1811.[2]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /mɔʐˈli.vɨ/
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  • Rhymes: -ivɨ
  • Syllabification: moż‧li‧wy

Adjective[edit]

możliwy (comparative możliwszy, superlative najmożliwszy, derived adverb możliwie)

  1. possible, viable (able but not certain to happen) [+ do (genitive) = for what]
    Synonyms: potencjalny, niewykluczony
    Antonym: niemożliwy
  2. possible (capable of being done or achieved; feasible)
    Synonyms: dosiężny, osiągalny, realny, wykonalny
  3. possible (apparently valid, likely, plausible)
    Synonyms: ewentualny, przypuszczalny
  4. (obsolete, physics) potential
    Synonym: potencjalny
  5. (colloquial) acceptable, after a fashion, fair to middling
    Synonyms: akceptowalny, niezły, znośny

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Descendants[edit]

  • Kashubian: mòżlëwi
  • Masurian: mozliwi
  • Silesian: możliwy
  • Ukrainian: можли́вий (možlývyj)

Trivia[edit]

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), możliwy is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 23 times in scientific texts, 16 times in news, 15 times in essays, 10 times in fiction, and 19 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 83 times, making it the 769th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[3]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “możliwy”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  2. ^ Gazeta Krakowska (in Polish), number 50, 1811 June 23, page 595
  3. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “możliwy”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎[1] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 256

Further reading[edit]

Silesian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Polish możliwy. By surface analysis, mōc +‎ -liwy.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /mɔˈʐlivɨ/
  • Rhymes: -ivɨ
  • Syllabification: mo‧żli‧wy

Adjective[edit]

możliwy

  1. possible

Declension[edit]

Derived terms[edit]

nouns

Further reading[edit]