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Polish
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpjɛr.vɛj/
- Rhymes: -ɛrvɛj
- Syllabification: pier‧wej
Adverb
pierwej (not comparable)
- (literary) first, firstly, first of all (before anything else)
- Synonyms: najpierw, najprzód, najsampierw, na początku, naprzód, nasamprzód, na wstępie, pierw, po pierwsze, primo, wpierw
Further reading
- pierwej in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- pierwej in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Wanda Decyk-Zięba, editor (2018-2022), “pierwej”, in Dydaktyczny Słownik Etymologiczno-historyczny Języka Polskiego [A Didactic, Historical, Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), →ISBN