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Czech
Etymology
Univerbation of tam + ten. Compare Kashubian tamten, Polish tamten, Silesian tamtyn, and Slovak tamten.
Pronunciation
Pronoun
tamten
- that; that one
- Synonyms: onen, tamhleten
Declension
Declension of tamten (irregular)
Further reading
- tamten in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- tamten in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
- tamten in Internetová jazyková příručka
Kashubian
Etymology
Univerbation of tam + ten. Compare Czech tamten, Polish tamten, Silesian tamtyn, and Slovak tamten.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtamtʲɛn/
- Syllabification: tam‧ten
Pronoun
tamten
- that, that one
Further reading
- “tamten”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022
Old Slovak
Etymology
Univerbation of tam + ten. First attested in 1666.
Pronoun
tamten
- that, that one
- past, previous
Descendants
References
- Majtán, Milan et al., editors (1991–2008), “tamten”, in Historický slovník slovenského jazyka [Historical Dictionary of the Slovak Language] (in Slovak), volumes 1–7 (A – Ž), Bratislava: VEDA, →OCLC
Polish
Etymology
Univerbation of tam + ten. First attested in the 16th century. Compare Czech tamten, Kashubian tamten, Silesian tamtyn, and Slovak tamten.
Pronunciation
Pronoun
tamten
- that, that one
- Synonym: ów
Declension
Declension of tamten (irregular)
1Proscribed but much more common.
Trivia
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), tamten is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 6 times in scientific texts, 0 times in news, 8 times in essays, 57 times in fiction, and 51 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 122 times, making it the 495th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.
References
- ^ Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “tamten”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
- ^ Mańczak, Witold (2017) “tamten”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN
- ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “tamten”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “tamten”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 595
Further reading
- tamten in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- tamten in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- “TAMTEN”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 17.12.2008
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “tamten”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “tamten”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1919), “tamten”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 7, Warsaw, page 17
Slovak
Etymology
Inherited from Old Slovak tamten. By surface analysis, univerbation of tam + ten. Compare Czech tamten, Kashubian tamten, Polish tamten, and Silesian tamtyn.
Pronunciation
Pronoun
tamten
- that, that one
- (colloquial) past, previous
Descendants
References
- “tamten”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024