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Polish
Etymology
Univerbation of nie + raz, literally “not once”.[1][2][3] First attested in 1534.[4] Compare Kashubian nierôz and Silesian niyrŏz.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɛras
- Syllabification: nie‧raz
Adverb
nieraz (not comparable)
- more than once; often, many a time, time and time again
- Synonyms: często, wielokrotnie
- every now and then, from time to time, occasionally, sometimes
- Synonyms: co jakiś czas, czasami, czasem, niekiedy
Trivia
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), nieraz is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 24 times in scientific texts, 3 times in news, 13 times in essays, 14 times in fiction, and 16 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 70 times, making it the 921st most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[5]
References
- ^ Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “nieraz”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
- ^ Mańczak, Witold (2017) “nieraz”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN
- ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “nieraz”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
- ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “nieraz”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “nieraz”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 287
Further reading
- nieraz in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- nieraz in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- “NIERAZ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 25.02.2009
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “nieraz”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “nieraz”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1904), “nieraz”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 3, Warsaw, page 327