tylko

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Old Polish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *toliko. First attested in the 14th century.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /tɨlʲkɔ/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /tɨlʲkɔ/

Particle

tylko

  1. only, just (not something else)
  2. only (without others or anything further; exclusively)
  3. only, rather (on the contrary)
  4. only, merely (no more than)

Descendants

  • ⇒ Masurian: tlo
  • Polish: tylko
  • Silesian: tylko

References

Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish tylko, from Proto-Slavic *toliko.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɨl.kɔ/
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  • Rhymes: -ɨlkɔ
  • Syllabification: tyl‧ko

Conjunction

tylko

  1. (contrastive) except, only, just (but; except; it's just that; the only thing is)
    Synonyms: ale, tyle że, tylko że
  2. just used in threats
    Tylko spróbuj ― Just try it!

Particle

tylko

  1. only, just (not something else)
    Synonyms: czysto, ino, jedynie, jeno, li tylko, tylko i wyłącznie, wyłącznie
  2. only, barely
    Synonyms: ledwie, ledwo, li tylko, raptem, zaledwie
  3. just, only (simply)
    Synonym: po prostu

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), tylko is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 254 times in scientific texts, 85 times in news, 295 times in essays, 281 times in fiction, and 425 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 1340 times, making it the 29th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

References

  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “tylko”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎ (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 617

Further reading

  • tylko in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • tylko in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • “TYLKO_I”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 06.02.2012
  • “TYLKO_II”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 06.09.2008
  • Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “tylko”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎
  • Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “tylko”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861‎
  • J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1919), “tylko”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎ (in Polish), volume 7, Warsaw, page 186

Silesian

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish tylko.

Pronunciation

Particle

tylko

  1. only, just (not something else)
    Synonyms: ino, inoś

Conjunction

tylko

  1. only, just (but; except)
    Synonyms: ale, ino, inoś

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