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Polish
Etymology
Univerbation of w + tedy. First attested in the 16th century.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈftɛ.dɨ/
- Rhymes: -ɛdɨ
- Syllabification: wte‧dy
Adverb
wtedy (not comparable)
- back then, then (at that time)
- Synonyms: naówczas, natedy, natenczas, podówczas, wonczas, wówczas, wtenczas
- at the time
Descendants
Trivia
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), wtedy is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 51 times in scientific texts, 6 times in news, 23 times in essays, 109 times in fiction, and 112 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 301 times, making it the 167th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.
References
- ^ Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “wtedy”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
- ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “wtedy”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “wtedy”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 686
Further reading
- wtedy in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- wtedy in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “wtedy”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “wtedy”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1919), “wtedy”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 7, Warsaw, page 782
Silesian
Etymology
Borrowed from Polish wtedy. By surface analysis, univerbation of w + tedy.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈftɛdɪ/
- Rhymes: -ɛdɪ
- Syllabification: wte‧dy
Adverb
wtedy
- then (at that time)
- Synonyms: natynczŏs, podtynczŏs, tedy, wtynczŏs
Further reading