Etymology
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incidental + -ly
incidentally (comparative more incidentally, superlative most incidentally)
- (manner) In an incidental manner; not of central or critical importance.
- The book discussed the subject, but only incidentally.
1951 April, D. S. Barrie, “British Railways: A Survey, 1948-1950”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 225:Not everybody welcomes standardisation as a principle, because it reduces variety (and, incidentally, tends to dispose of the quainter and more picturesque anomalies).
- By chance; in an unplanned way.
- (speech act, conjunctive) Parenthetically, by the way.
- Incidentally, did you hear anything new from your brother yesterday?
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in an incidental manner
- Albanian: kalimthi (sq)
- Arabic: صُدْفَةً (ar) (ṣudfatan)
- Armenian: իմիջիայլոց (imiǰiaylocʻ)
- Belarusian: выпадко́ва (vypadkóva)
- Bulgarian: случа́йно (bg) (slučájno)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 偶然 (zh) (ǒurán)
- Finnish: sivuten (fi), ohimennen (fi)
- French: incidemment (fr)
- German: nebenbei (de)
- Hungarian: érintőleg, érintőlegesen (hu), futólag (hu), mellékesen (hu)
- Italian: incidentalmente (it)
- Japanese: たまたま (ja) (tamatama), 偶然 (ja) (ぐうぜん, gūzen)
- Korean: 우연히 (ko) (uyeonhi)
- Polish: incydentalnie
- Portuguese: incidentalmente
- Romanian: apropo (ro)
- Russian: случа́йно (ru) (slučájno)
- Scottish Gaelic: eadar dà sgeul
- Spanish: incidentalmente (es)
- Swedish: apropå (sv), i förbigående (sv)
- Turkish: sırası gelmişken (tr), bu arada (tr), bir ara (tr), lâf arasında
- Ukrainian: випадко́во (vypadkóvo)
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without looking for something/somebody
- Arabic: عَلَى فِكْرَة (ʕalā fikra)
- Bulgarian: между́ дру́гото (meždú drúgoto)
- Esperanto: parenteze
- Finnish: muuten (fi), sattua (fi) (verb; "happen to")
- German: apropos (de), übrigens (de), im Übrigen (de), nebenbei gesagt
- Hungarian: egyébként (hu), amúgy (hu), mellesleg (hu)
- Irish: dála an scéil
- Italian: per inciso
- Polish: nawiasem mówiąc (pl)
- Portuguese: a propósito (pt), aliás (pt)
- Russian: кста́ти (ru) (kstáti), ме́жду про́чим (ru) (méždu próčim)
- Spanish: por cierto (es), a propósito (es)
- Ukrainian: до ре́чі (do réči), між і́ншим (miž ínšym)
- Vietnamese: à này
- Yiddish: אַגבֿ (agev)
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