zaledwie

Kashubian

Etymology

    Borrowed from Polish zaledwie. By surface analysis, univerbation of za +‎ ledwie.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /zaˈlɛ.dvjɛ/
    • Rhymes: -ɛdvjɛ
    • Syllabification: za‧le‧dwie

    Conjunction

    zaledwie

    1. no sooner, as soon as, scarcely, hardly

    Particle

    zaledwie

    1. only, just

    Further reading

    • Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011), “zaledwie”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi[2]
    • zaledwie”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

    Polish

    Etymology

      Univerbation of za + ledwie. First attested in the 16th century.[1]

      Pronunciation

       
      • IPA(key): /zaˈlɛ.dvjɛ/
      • Audio:(file)
      • Rhymes: -ɛdvjɛ
      • Syllabification: za‧le‧dwie

      Conjunction

      zaledwie

      1. no sooner, as soon as, scarcely, hardly
        Synonyms: dopiero, ledwo, ledwie, jak tylko
      2. (obsolete) almost, nearly, practically [with negative clause ‘translated in the positive’]
        Synonym: omal

      Particle

      zaledwie

      1. only, just
        Synonyms: ledwo, ledwie, tylko

      Descendants

      • Kashubian: zaledwie
      • Silesian: zaledwie

      Trivia

      According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), particle is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 19 times in scientific texts, 15 times in news, 20 times in essays, 7 times in fiction, and 6 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 67 times, making it the 980th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]

      Adverb

      zaledwie (not comparable)

      1. (obsolete) difficultly, hardly
        Synonym: ciężko

      References

      1. ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa; Stanisław Rospond; Witold Taszycki; Stefan Hrabec; Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023), “zaledwie”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
      2. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990), “particle”, 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 736

      Further reading

      Silesian

      Etymology

        Borrowed from Polish zaledwie.

        Pronunciation

        • IPA(key): /zaˈlɛ.dvjɛ/
        • Audio:(file)
        • Rhymes: -ɛdvjɛ
        • Syllabification: za‧le‧dwie

        Particle

        zaledwie

        1. only, just

        Further reading