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Polish
Etymology
Univerbation of na + to + miasto. First attested in 1645–1702. Compare Ukrainian нато́мість (natómistʹ).
Pronunciation
Particle
natomiast
- meanwhile, whereas, while
- Near-synonyms: ale, tymczasem, za to, zaś
- (obsolete) instead
- Synonym: zamiast
Trivia
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), natomiast is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 70 times in scientific texts, 44 times in news, 63 times in essays, 10 times in fiction, and 4 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 191 times, making it the 196th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.
References
- ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “natomiast”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
- ^ Materiały źródłowe do dziejów kultury i sztuki XVI-XVIII w. (in Polish), 1983 [1645-1702], Inwentarz akcesyjny kaplicy Domagaliczów we Lwowie z lat 1645-1702, page 350: “[…] ale zachować natomiast, […]”
- ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “natomiast”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 275
Further reading
- natomiast in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- natomiast in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “natomiast”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1904), “natomiast”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 3, Warsaw, page 187