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Polish
Etymology
Univerbation of ponad + to. Calque of German überdies. First attested in 1831.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɔˈnat.tɔ/
- Rhymes: -attɔ
- Syllabification: po‧nad‧to
Particle
ponadto
- furthermore, moreover
- Synonyms: co gorsza, co więcej, i to, mało tego, na dobitek, na dobitkę, na dodatek, na dokładkę, na domiar złego, nadto, powiem więcej, poza tym, przy tym, w dodatku, więcej
Trivia
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), ponadto is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 20 times in scientific texts, 21 times in news, 20 times in essays, 2 times in fiction, and 2 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 65 times, making it the 1012th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.
References
- ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “ponad”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
- ^ Gazeta Wielkiego Xięstwa Poznańskiego (in Polish), number 215, 1831 September 16, page 1141
- ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “ponadto”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 402
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