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Old Polish
Etymology
From jak + -by. First attested in the end of the fifteenth century.
1901 , Materiały i Prace Komisji Językowej Akademii Umiejętności w Krakowie, volume II, page 320:
Proszyl Ihusa, bi szam oblycznye do nyego stąpyl, yakbi nye dowyerzal, bi pan Ihs mogl vszdrowycz szina gego nye stąpvyącz oblycznye do nyego (ac si non credidisset eum in absentia posse sanare)
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), “jakby”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), jakby is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 18 times in scientific texts, 1 time in news, 7 times in essays, 143 times in fiction, and 89 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 258 times, making it the 203rd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.
References
^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “jakby”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 160
Further reading
jakby in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN