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 no sooner, as soon as, scarcely, hardly === Particle === zaledwie 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. === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -ɛdvjɛ Syllabification: za‧le‧dwie === Conjunction === zaledwie no sooner, as soon as, scarcely, hardly Synonyms: dopiero, ledwo, ledwie, jak tylko (obsolete) almost, nearly, practically [with negative clause ‘translated in the positive’] Synonym: omal === Particle === zaledwie 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. === Adverb === zaledwie (not comparable) (obsolete) difficultly, hardly Synonym: ciężko === References === === Further reading === “zaledwie”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎[3] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN “zaledwie”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[4] (in Polish) Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814), “zaledwie”, in Słownik języka polskiego Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “zaledwie”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861 J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1927), “zaledwie”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 8, Warsaw, page 149 == Silesian == === Etymology === Borrowed from Polish zaledwie. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /zaˈlɛ.dvjɛ/ Rhymes: -ɛdvjɛ Syllabification: za‧le‧dwie === Particle === zaledwie only, just === Further reading === zaledwie in silling.org