rzeczywiście

Polish

Etymology

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *Hrek-der.
Proto-Slavic *reťi
Proto-Indo-European *-is
Proto-Balto-Slavic *-is
Proto-Slavic *-ь
Proto-Slavic *rě̑čь
Old Polish rzecz
Polish rzecz
Polish -y-
Proto-Indo-European *weyd-der.
Proto-Balto-Slavic *weiˀdēˀtei
Proto-Slavic *viděti
Proto-Slavic *vistъ
Polish rzeczywisty
Proto-Slavic *-e
Old Polish -ie
Polish -ie
Polish rzeczywiście

    From rzeczywisty + -ie. First attested in 1579.[1]

    Pronunciation

     
    • IPA(key): /ʐɛ.t͡ʂɘˈviɕ.t͡ɕɛ/
    • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): (16th c.) /r̝ɛ.t͡ʂɨˈviɕ.t͡ɕɛ/, (17th–18th c.) /ʐɛ.t͡ʂɨˈviɕ.t͡ɕɛ/
    • Audio:(file)
    • Rhymes: -iɕt͡ɕɛ
    • Syllabification: rze‧czy‧wiś‧cie

    Particle

    rzeczywiście

    1. actually, forsooth, indeed, really, sure enough, verily
      Synonyms: faktycznie, istotnie, w rzeczy samej, zaiste, zaprawdę

    Descendants

    • → Silesian: rzeczywiście

    Trivia

    According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), rzeczywiście is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 13 times in scientific texts, 3 times in news, 17 times in essays, 16 times in fiction, and 43 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 92 times, making it the 689th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]

    References

    1. ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa; Stanisław Rospond; Witold Taszycki; Stefan Hrabec; Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023), “rzeczywiście”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
    2. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990), “rzeczywiście”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎[1] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków; Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 515

    Further reading

    Silesian

    Etymology

    Borrowed from Polish rzeczywiście.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ʐɛ.t͡ʂɪˈviɕ.t͡ɕɛ/
    • Audio:(file)
    • Rhymes: -iɕt͡ɕɛ
    • Syllabification: rze‧czy‧wiś‧cie

    Particle

    rzeczywiście

    1. actually, forsooth, indeed, really, sure enough, verily

    Further reading

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