zaś
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Polish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Clipping of zasię. Compare Czech zase and Kashubian zôs. First attested in the 16th century.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈzaɕ/
- (Greater Poland):
- (Kuyavia) IPA(key): /ˈzaɕ/
- (Central Greater Poland) IPA(key): /ˈzaɕ/
- (Southern Greater Poland) IPA(key): /ˈzaɕ/
Particle
[edit]zaś
- (literary, contrastive or elaborative) meanwhile, whereas, while, rather than
- (literary) earlier
- (literary or dialectal, Central Greater Poland, Southern Greater Poland, Kuyavia) after, afterwards; thereupon
- (colloquial, dialectal) used with some conjunctions for expressiveness
Adverb
[edit]zaś (not comparable)
Derived terms
[edit]adverb
Trivia
[edit]According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), zaś is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 69 times in scientific texts, 26 times in news, 55 times in essays, 25 times in fiction, and 3 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 178 times, making it the 326th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “zaś”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “zaś”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 753
Further reading
[edit]- zaś in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- zaś in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- “ZAŚ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 02.03.2010
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “zaś”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “zaś”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1927), “zaś”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 8, Warsaw, page 303
- Oskar Kolberg (1867) “zaś”, in Dzieła wszystkie: Kujawy (in Polish), page 279
- Oskar Kolberg (1877) “zaś”, in “Rzecz o mowie ludu wielkopolskiego”, in Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowéj (in Polish), volume 1, III (Materyjały etnologiczne), page 25
- Oskar Kolberg (1877) “zaś”, in “Rzecz o mowie ludu wielkopolskiego”, in Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowéj (in Polish), volume 1, III (Materyjały etnologiczne), page 32
Silesian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Clipping of Old Polish zasię.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]zaś
Particle
[edit]zaś
Further reading
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- Polish clippings
- Polish 1-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Polish/aɕ
- Rhymes:Polish/aɕ/1 syllable
- Polish lemmas
- Polish particles
- Polish literary terms
- Polish dialectal terms
- Central Greater Poland Polish
- Southern Greater Poland Polish
- Kuyavian Polish
- Polish colloquialisms
- Polish adverbs
- Polish uncomparable adverbs
- Middle Polish
- Polish time adverbs
- Silesian clippings
- Silesian terms derived from Old Polish
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- Rhymes:Silesian/aɕ
- Rhymes:Silesian/aɕ/1 syllable
- Silesian lemmas
- Silesian adverbs
- Silesian particles