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Kashubian
Etymology
Borrowed from Polish zaledwie. By surface analysis, univerbation of za + ledwie.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /zaˈlɛdvjɛ/
- Rhymes: -ɛdvjɛ
- Syllabification: za‧led‧wie
Conjunction
zaledwie
- no sooner, as soon as, scarcely, hardly
Particle
zaledwie
- only, just
Further reading
- Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “zaledwie”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi
- “zaledwie”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022
Polish
Etymology
Univerbation of za + ledwie. First attested in the 16th century.
Pronunciation
Conjunction
zaledwie
- no sooner, as soon as, scarcely, hardly
- Synonyms: dopiero, ledwo, ledwie, jak tylko
- (obsolete) almost, nearly, practically
- Synonym: omal
Particle
zaledwie
- only, just
- Synonyms: ledwo, ledwie, tylko
Descendants
Trivia
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), particle is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 19 times in scientific texts, 15 times in news, 20 times in essays, 7 times in fiction, and 6 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 67 times, making it the 980th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.
Adverb
zaledwie (not comparable)
- (obsolete) difficultly, hardly
- Synonym: ciężko
References
- ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “zaledwie”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “particle”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 736
Further reading
- zaledwie in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- zaledwie in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “zaledwie”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “zaledwie”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1927), “zaledwie”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 8, Warsaw, page 149
Silesian
Etymology
Borrowed from Polish zaledwie.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /zaˈlɛdvjɛ/
- Rhymes: -ɛdvjɛ
- Syllabification: za‧led‧wie
Particle
zaledwie
- only, just
Further reading