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Old Polish
Etymology
Univerbation of dla + czego, literally “for what”. First attested in the end of the fifteenth century.
B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “dlaczego”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), dlaczego is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 11 times in scientific texts, 3 times in news, 23 times in essays, 68 times in fiction, and 160 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 265 times, making it the 195th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.
References
^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “dlaczego”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 74
Further reading
dlaczego in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN