dzięki

Polish

Etymology

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *tóng-o-s
Proto-Germanic *þankaz
Old High German danc
Middle High German dancbor.
Old Polish dzięka
Polish dzięka
Proto-Indo-European *-isder.
Proto-Indo-European *-ósder.
Proto-Slavic *-ьjь
Old Polish -i
Polish -i
German danksl.
French grâce àsl.
English thanks tosl.
Polish dzięki

    From dzięka +‎ -i, which was also displaced by this term. Compare Czech díky. Preposition sense 1 is a semantic loan from German dank, French grâce à, and English thanks to.[1]

    Pronunciation

     
    • IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʑɛŋ.ki/
    • Audio:(file)
    • Rhymes: -ɛŋki
    • Syllabification: dzię‧ki

    Noun

    dzięki nvir pl

    1. (literary) thanks (expression of gratitude)
      Synonyms: (obsolete) dzięka, podzięka, podziękowanie

    Declension

    Declension of dzięki
    plural
    nominative dzięki
    genitive dzięków
    dative dziękom
    accusative dzięki
    instrumental dziękami
    locative dziękach
    vocative dzięki

    Preposition

    dzięki

    2. thanks to [with dative]

    Trivia

    According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), dzięki (preposition) is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 63 times in scientific texts, 35 times in news, 22 times in essays, 9 times in fiction, and 14 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 143 times, making it the 412th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]

    Interjection

    dzięki

    1. (colloquial) thanks!

    Derived terms

    interjections

    References

    1. ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000), “dzięki 2”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
    2. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990), “dzięki (preposition)”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎[1] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków; Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 104

    Further reading

    This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.