dlaczego
Appearance
Old Polish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Etymology tree
Univerbation of dla + czego, literally “for what”. First attested in the end of the fifteenth century.
Pronunciation
[edit]Conjunction
[edit]dlaczego
- (attested in Masovia) that's why, so, ergo
- 1928 [End of the fifteenth century], Jan Janów, editor, Zespół ewangelijny Biblioteki Ordynacji Zamoyskich nr 1116transliteration, transcription, Warsaw, page 307:
- Dvch boszy na myą, dlyaczego pomazal mya vzyawyacz vbogym (propter quod unxit me, evangelizare pauperibus misit me Luc 4, 18)
- [Duch boży na mię, dlaczego pomazał mię wzjawiać ubogim (propter quod unxit me, evangelizare pauperibus misit me Luc 4, 18)]
Descendants
[edit]- Polish: dlaczego, dlácego (“why not; of course”) (Western Kraków, Bukowno), lácego (Western Kraków, Smardzowice, Sławków, Podegrodzie, Zabrzeż), dlacygu (Near Masovian, Łukowiec)
- Silesian: dlŏczego
References
[edit]- Bożena Sieradzka-Baziur, et al., editors (2011–2015), “dlaczego”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN
Polish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- dlácego (“why not; of course”) (Western Kraków, Bukowno)
- lácego (Western Kraków, Smardzowice, Sławków, Podegrodzie, Zabrzeż)
- dlacygu (Near Masovian, Łukowiec)
Etymology
[edit]Etymology tree
Inherited from Old Polish dlaczego. By surface analysis, univerbation of dla + czego. Compare Kashubian dlôczegò and Slovincian dluczú.
Pronunciation
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]dlaczego
Usage notes
[edit]Combined forms for this word are uncommon and often formed for stylization.
Declension
[edit]Combined forms of dlaczego
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| 1st person | dlaczegom | dlaczegośmy |
| 2nd person | dlaczegoś | dlaczegoście |
| 3rd person | dlaczego | dlaczego |
Derived terms
[edit]Trivia
[edit]According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), dlaczego is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 11 times in scientific texts, 3 times in news, 23 times in essays, 68 times in fiction, and 160 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 265 times, making it the 195th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]
References
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “dlaczego”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego[2] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- “dlaczego”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN[3] (in Polish)
- “DLACZEGO”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 28.07.2021
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814), “dlaczego”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “dlaczego”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “dlaczego”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 459
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