ciągle

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See also: ciągłe

Polish

Etymology

From ciągły +‎ -e. First attested in 1703–1756. Compare Masurian czióngle and Silesian ciōngle.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡ɕɔŋ.ɡlɛ/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ɕɔ̃.ɡlɛ/
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  • Rhymes: -ɔŋɡlɛ
  • Syllabification: ciąg‧le

Adverb

ciągle (not comparable)

  1. still
    Synonyms: dalej, jeszcze, nadal, wciąż
  2. constantly, continuously (without stopping)
    Synonyms: bez przerwy, bez przestanku, bez ustanku, nieustannie, cały czas, ciurkiem, non stop
  3. regularly, every once in a while
  4. (obsolete) smoothly (without holes in a surface)

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), ciągle is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 15 times in scientific texts, 5 times in news, 14 times in essays, 31 times in fiction, and 26 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 91 times, making it the 693rd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

References

  1. ^ Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “ciągać”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
  2. ^ Mańczak, Witold (2017) “ciągać”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN
  3. ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “ciągle”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  4. ^ Sadok Barącz, editor (1703-1756), Pamiętnik dziejów polskich. Z aktów urzędowych lwowskich i rękopisów‎ (in Polish), published 1855, Kronika zakonnic ormiańskich reguły ś. Benedykta we Lwowie, page 193
  5. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “ciągle”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎ (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 51

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