natomiast

== Polish == === Etymology === Univerbation of na (“on”) + to (“this”) + miasto (“place”). First attested in 1645–1702. Compare Ukrainian нато́мість (natómistʹ). === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -ɔmjast Syllabification: na‧to‧miast === Particle === natomiast meanwhile, whereas, while Near-synonyms: ale, tymczasem, za to, zaś (obsolete) instead Synonym: zamiast === Trivia === According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), natomiast is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 70 times in scientific texts, 44 times in news, 63 times in essays, 10 times in fiction, and 4 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 191 times, making it the 196th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words. === References === === Further reading === natomiast in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN natomiast in Polish dictionaries at PWN Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “natomiast”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861 J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1904), “natomiast”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 3, Warsaw, page 187