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Polish
Etymology
Univerbation of w + raz.[1] First attested in the 16th century.[2]
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -as
- Syllabification: wraz
Adverb
wraz (not comparable)
- along (with someone or something else)
- Synonyms: razem, wspólnie, wespół
- just (not far)
- Synonym: zaraz
- (obsolete) immediately, at once
- Synonyms: zaraz, natychmiast
- (obsolete) simultaneously, at the same time
- Synonyms: jednocześnie, zarazem
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Trivia
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), wraz is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 29 times in scientific texts, 33 times in news, 21 times in essays, 12 times in fiction, and 3 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 98 times, making it the 648th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[3]
References
- ^ Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “raz”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
- ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “wraz”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “wraz”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 679
Further reading
- wraz in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- wraz in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- “WRAZ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 03.09.2009
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “wraz”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “wraz”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1919), “wraz”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 7, Warsaw, page 718