wnet

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Kashubian

Etymology

Borrowed from Polish wnet.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈvnɛt/
  • Rhymes: -ɛt
  • Syllabification: wnet

Adverb

wnet (not comparable)

  1. soon (within a short time)
    • 2014, Pomerania, number 1, Gdańsk: Zrzeszenie Kaszubsko-Pomorskie, page 35:
      Wnet pòkôzałë sã górczi z malownymakamiznama saksońsczi Szwajcarii i òprzepôłnim cuch zatrzimół sã na môłim banowiszczu.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  2. almost
    • 2014, Pomerania, number 1, Gdańsk: Zrzeszenie Kaszubsko-Pomorskie, page 75:
      Na zdrzadni bëło wnet sto słëchińców z rozmajitëch strzodowiszczów i pòkòleniów.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Further reading

  • wnet”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

Old Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Czech ihned, inhed. First attested in 1498. Doublet of inedy.

Pronunciation

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

Adverb

wnet (not comparable)

  1. soon (within a short time)
    • 1858 [1498], Wacław Aleksander Maciejowski, editor, Historia prawodawstw słowiańskich, 2 edition, volume VI, page 272:
      Ys on, komv sią gwalth sthal, ma wneth obiawycz y oskarzicz onego gwalthownyka
      [Iż on, komu się gwałt stał, ma wnet objawić i oskarżyć onego gwałtownika]

Descendants

  • Polish: wnet
    • Kashubian: wnet
  • Silesian: chnet

References

  • Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “wnet”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
  • 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), “wnet”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish wnet. Doublet of inegdy (elsewhen). Cognate with Czech hned.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈvnɛt/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛt
  • Syllabification: wnet

Adverb

wnet (not comparable)

  1. (literary) shortly, soon
    Synonyms: niebawem, wkrótce, zaraz

Descendants

Further reading

  • wnet in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • wnet in Polish dictionaries at PWN