ostatnio

Polish

Etymology

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₃ebʰi
Proto-Balto-Slavic *ab
Proto-Slavic *o(b)der.
Proto-Slavic *o(b)-
Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-der.
Proto-Balto-Slavic *stā́ˀtei
Proto-Slavic *stati
Proto-Slavic *ostati
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Balto-Slavic *-inas
Proto-Slavic *-ьnъ
Proto-Slavic *ostatьnъ
Old Polish ostatni
Polish ostatni
Proto-Slavic *-o
Old Polish -o
Polish -o
Polish ostatnio

    From ostatni + -o.[1] First attested in 1801.[2]

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ɔˈstat.ɲɔ/
    • Audio:(file)
    • Rhymes: -atɲɔ
    • Syllabification: o‧stat‧nio

    Adverb

    ostatnio (not comparable)

    1. lately, recently, the other day
      Synonyms: niedawno, ostatnimi czasy
      Ostatnio dużo kaszlę, może powinienem pójść do lekarza na kontrolę. ― I've been coughing a lot lately, maybe I should go to the doctor for a checkup.
    2. last, last time, previously
      Synonyms: poprzednio, ostatnim razem
      Nie wiem, kiedy cię ostatnio widziałem. ― I don't know when I last saw you.

    Trivia

    According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), ostatnio is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 6 times in scientific texts, 57 times in news, 24 times in essays, 4 times in fiction, and 18 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 109 times, making it the 570th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[3]

    References

    1. ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000), “ostatnio”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
    2. ^ Gazeta Warszawska (in Polish), number 41, 3 September 1801, page 1249
    3. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990), “ostatnio”, 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 344

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