nawet

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Kashubian

Etymology

Borrowed from Polish nawet.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈnavɛt/
  • Syllabification: na‧wet

Particle

nawet

  1. even (in reality; implying an extreme example in the case mentioned, as compared to the implied reality)

Further reading

  • Stefan Ramułt (1893) “navet”, in Słownik języka pomorskiego czyli kaszubskiego‎ (in Kashubian), page 119
  • Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “nawet”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎, page 89
  • “nawet”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

Masurian

Etymology

Borrowed from Polish nawet.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Syllabification: na‧wet

Particle

nawet

  1. (expressive) expresses surprise; even

Further reading

  • Zofia Stamirowska (1987-2021) “nawet”, in Anna Basara, editor, Słownik gwar Ostródzkiego, Warmii i Mazur‎, volume 4, Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich Wydawnictwo Polskiej Akademii Nauk, →ISBN, pages 281-282

Polish

Etymology

Univerbation of na +‎ wet. The shift from an adverb to a particle was influenced by German sogar. First attested in 1575.

Pronunciation

Particle

nawet

  1. even (in reality; implying an extreme example in the case mentioned, as compared to the implied reality)
    Nawet ty możesz się uczyć polskiego. ― Even you can learn Polish.
  2. (Middle Polish) downright
    Synonyms: wręcz, zgoła
  3. (Middle Polish) one of
    Synonym: jeden z

Descendants

  • → Belarusian: на́ват (návat)
  • → Kashubian: nawet
  • → Masurian: nawet
  • → Silesian: nawet
  • → Ukrainian: на́віть (návitʹ)

Adverb

nawet (not comparable)

  1. (Middle Polish) finally, in the end
    Synonyms: na koniec, w końcu
  2. (Middle Polish) used to supplement a statement; also, as well; further; so

Conjunction

nawet

  1. (Middle Polish) even though, although
    Synonyms: aczkolwiek, chociaż, mimo że

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), nawet is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 123 times in scientific texts, 28 times in news, 117 times in essays, 176 times in fiction, and 193 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 637 times, making it the 72nd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

References

  1. ^ Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “nawet”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
  2. ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “nawet I”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  3. ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “nawet II”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  4. ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “nawet”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  5. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “nawet”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎ (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 277

Further reading

Silesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Polish nawet.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈnavɛt/
  • Rhymes: -avɛt
  • Syllabification: na‧wet

Particle

nawet

  1. even (in reality; implying an extreme example in the case mentioned, as compared to the implied reality)
    Synonyms: (Cieszyń) aji, baji, bali

Further reading

Wolof

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

nawet (definite form nawet bi)

  1. rainy season

Verb

nawet

  1. to spend the rainy season (somewhere)

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French navette.

Noun

nawet (definite form nawet bi)

  1. shuttle (sliding thread holder in a sewing machine)
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