wtedy

Polish

Etymology

    Univerbation of w + tedy.[1] First attested in the 16th century.[2]

    Pronunciation

     
    • IPA(key): /ˈftɛ.dɘ/
    • Audio:(file)
    • Rhymes: -ɛdɘ
    • Syllabification: wte‧dy

    Adverb

    wtedy (not comparable)

    1. back then, then (at that time)
      Synonyms: naówczas, natedy, natenczas, podówczas, wonczas, wówczas, wtenczas
    2. at the time

    Descendants

    • Silesian: wtedy

    Trivia

    According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), wtedy is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 51 times in scientific texts, 6 times in news, 23 times in essays, 109 times in fiction, and 112 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 301 times, making it the 167th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[3]

    Particle

    wtedy

    1. (Chełmno) synonym of w takim razie

    References

    1. ^ Boryś, Wiesław (2005), “wtedy”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
    2. ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa; Stanisław Rospond; Witold Taszycki; Stefan Hrabec; Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023), “wtedy”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
    3. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990), “wtedy”, 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 686

    Further reading

    Silesian

    Etymology

      Borrowed from Polish wtedy. By surface analysis, univerbation of w +‎ tedy.

      Pronunciation

      • IPA(key): /ˈftɛ.dɪ/
      • Audio:(file)
      • Rhymes: -ɛdɪ
      • Syllabification: wte‧dy

      Adverb

      wtedy

      1. then (at that time)
        Synonyms: natynczŏs, podtynczŏs, tedy, wtynczŏs

      Further reading