aczkolwiek

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Polish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Old Polish aczkolwie. By surface analysis, acz +‎ -kolwiek. Compare Czech ačkoli. First attested in the 15th century.[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /at͡ʂˈkɔl.vjɛk/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔlvjɛk
  • Syllabification: acz‧kol‧wiek

Conjunction[edit]

aczkolwiek

  1. (literary) although, albeit
    Synonyms: acz, chociaż, choć
  2. (Middle Polish) if
    Synonyms: jeśli, gdy
  3. (Middle Polish) because
    Synonyms: bo, ponieważ
  4. (Middle Polish) The meaning of this term is uncertain.
    Synonyms: bo, ponieważ

Related terms[edit]

conjunctions/particles

Trivia[edit]

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), aczkolwiek is one of the top 10,355 most used words in Polish, appearing 2 times in scientific texts, 2 times in news, 2 times in essays, 1 time in fiction, and 0 times in plays, totaling 7 times, making it the 6134th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]

References[edit]

  1. ^ K. Nitsch, editor (1953), “aczkolwie”, in Słownik staropolski (in Old Polish), volume 1, Warsaw: Polish Academy of Sciences, page 19
  2. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990), “aczkolwiek”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków; Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 1

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