zaledwie
Kashubian
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Polish zaledwie. By surface analysis, univerbation of za + ledwie.
Pronunciation
editConjunction
editzaledwie
Particle
editzaledwie
Further reading
editPolish
editEtymology
editUniverbation of za + ledwie. First attested in the 16th century.[1]
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /zaˈlɛd.vjɛ/
- (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /zaˈlɛd.vjɛ/
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -ɛdvjɛ
- Syllabification: za‧led‧wie
Conjunction
editzaledwie
- no sooner, as soon as, scarcely, hardly
- (obsolete) almost, nearly, practically [with negative clause ‘translated in the positive’]
- Synonym: omal
Particle
editzaledwie
Descendants
editTrivia
editAccording to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), particle is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 19 times in scientific texts, 15 times in news, 20 times in essays, 7 times in fiction, and 6 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 67 times, making it the 980th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]
Adverb
editzaledwie (not comparable)
- (obsolete) difficultly, hardly
- Synonym: ciężko
References
edit- ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “zaledwie”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “particle”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 736
Further reading
edit- zaledwie in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- zaledwie in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “zaledwie”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “zaledwie”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1927), “zaledwie”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 8, Warsaw, page 149
Silesian
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Polish zaledwie.
Pronunciation
editParticle
editzaledwie
Further reading
edit- zaledwie in silling.org
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