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Old Polish
Etymology
Univerbation of dla + czego, literally “for what”. First attested in the end of the fifteenth century.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /dlʲaːt͡ʃʲɛɡɔ/
- IPA(key): (15th CE) /dlʲɒt͡ʃʲɛɡɔ/
Conjunction
dlaczego
- that's why, so, ergo
1928 [End of the fifteenth century], Jan Janów, editor, Zespół ewangelijny Biblioteki Ordynacji Zamoyskich nr 1116, page 307:Dvch boszy na myą, dlyaczego pomazal mya vzyawyacz vbogym (propter quod unxit me, evangelizare pauperibus misit me Luc 4, 18)- [Duch boży na mię, dlaczego pomazał mię wzjawiać ubogim (propter quod unxit me, evangelizare pauperibus misit me Luc 4, 18)]
Descendants
References
Polish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Polish dlaczego. By surface analysis, univerbation of dla + czego. Compare Kashubian dlôczegò and Slovincian dluczú.
Pronunciation
Pronoun
dlaczego
- (interrogative) why (for what cause, reason, or purpose)
- Synonym: czemu
Declension
Combined forms of dlaczego
Derived terms
Trivia
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 [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (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
- dlaczego in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- “DLACZEGO”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 28.07.2021
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “dlaczego”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “dlaczego”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “dlaczego”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 459