zanim

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Kashubian

Etymology

Univerbation of za +‎ nim. Compare Polish zanim.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈzaɲim/
  • Syllabification: za‧nim

Conjunction

zanim

  1. before (earlier than the time when)
    Synonym: nim

Further reading

  • Bernard Sychta (1967-1973) “zańim”, in Słownik gwar kaszubskich, volume 6, page 182
  • Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “zanim”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎
  • “zanim”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

Polish

Etymology

Univerbation of za +‎ nim. First attested in 1612. Compare Kashubian zanim and Silesian zanim.

Pronunciation

Conjunction

zanim

  1. before (earlier than the time when)
    Synonym: nim
    Antonyms: dopóki nie, póki nie

Declension

Combined forms of zanim
singular plural
1st person zanimem zanimeśmy
2nd person zanimeś zanimeście
3rd person zanim zanim

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), zanim is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 6 times in scientific texts, 5 times in news, 8 times in essays, 30 times in fiction, and 15 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 64 times, making it the 1035th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

References

  1. ^ Szymon Wysocki, transl. (1612), Wielkie zwierciadło przykładow Więcey niźli z ośmidźieśiąt Autorow, poboznośćią, náuką, y stárowiecznośćią przezacnych: ták że z rozmáitych Historiy, Tráktatow, y kśiążek wyięte, przez iednego niemiánowánego, ktory żył około Roku Páńskiego 1480.‎ (in Polish), page 169(268)
  2. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “zanim”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎ (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 742

Further reading

Silesian

Etymology

Univerbation of za +‎ nim. Compare Polish zanim.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈzaɲim/
  • Rhymes: -aɲim
  • Syllabification: za‧nim

Conjunction

zanim

  1. before (earlier than the time when)
    Synonyms: (Cieszyn) pokiyl, podwiel, zaczym, (dated) zaim, zatym

Further reading

  • zanim in silling.org
  • Henryk Jaroszewicz (2022) “zanim”, in Zasady pisowni języka śląskiego (in Polish), Siedlce: Wydawnictwo Naukowe IKRBL, page 160
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