wcześnie

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Old Polish

Etymology

From wczesny +‎ -ie. First attested in 1447.

Pronunciation

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

Adverb

wcześnie

  1. (attested in Sieradz-Łęczyca) averagely, mediocrely
    • 1874-1891 [1447], Rozprawy i Sprawozdania z Posiedzeń Wydziału Filologicznego Akademii Umiejętności, , , volume XXII, Łęczyca, page 41:
      Wczessznye mediocriter
      [Wcześnie mediocriter]

Descendants

  • Polish: wcześnie

References

  • B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “wcześnie”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish wcześnie. By surface analysis, wczesny +‎ -ie.

Pronunciation

 
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  • Rhymes: -ɛɕɲɛ
  • Syllabification: wcześ‧nie

Adverb

wcześnie (comparative wcześniej, superlative najwcześniej)

  1. early (close to the beginning; at a time before expected; sooner than usual)
    Antonym: późno
  2. early (close to the beginning of the day)
    Antonym: późno

Derived terms

adjectives

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), wcześnie is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 13 times in scientific texts, 11 times in news, 8 times in essays, 20 times in fiction, and 17 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 69 times, making it the 937th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

References

  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “wcześnie”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 656

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