jeżeli
Appearance
See also: jezeli
Polish
[edit]Etymology
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Univerbation of je(st) + że + li.[1][2][3] First attested in 1588.[4]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /jɛˈʐɛ.li/
- (Greater Poland):
- (Kuyavia) IPA(key): [jɛˈʐɛ.li]
- (Central Greater Poland) IPA(key): [jɛˈʐɛ.li]
- (Southern Greater Poland) IPA(key): [jɛˈʐɛ.li]
- (Masovia):
- (Near Masovian) IPA(key): [jɛˈʐɛ.li]
- (Far Masovian) IPA(key): [jɛˈʐɛ.li]
Conjunction
[edit]jeżeli
- synonym of jeśli (“if”)
- Jeżeli kochać, to nie indywidualnie! ― If to love, then not individually!
- (Middle Polish) synonym of ponieważ (“because”)
Usage notes
[edit]Combined forms for this word are uncommon and often formed for stylization.
Declension
[edit]Combined forms of jeżeli
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| 1st person | jeżelim | jeżeliśmy |
| 2nd person | jeżeliś | jeżeliście |
| 3rd person | jeżeli | jeżeli |
Descendants
[edit]- → Kashubian: jeżlë, eżlë, żelë, żlë
- → Old Ruthenian: ежели (eželi)
- → Russian: ежели (ježeli)
- → Silesian: jeżeli
Trivia
[edit]According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), jeżeli is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 50 times in scientific texts, 7 times in news, 84 times in essays, 32 times in fiction, and 69 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 242 times, making it the 220th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[5]
Adverb
[edit]jeżeli
- (Far Masovian) synonym of jak (“as, like”)
- Chłop wysoki jeżeli dąb. ― The boy is tall like an oak.
Particle
[edit]jeżeli
- (Kuyavia, Bodzanowo, Central Greater Poland, Kotłów, Southern Greater Poland, Morownica, Near Masovian, Żychlin, Tretki) synonym of czy (“if, whether”)
Synonyms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Boryś, Wiesław (2005), “jeżeli”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
- ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000), “jeżeli”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
- ^ Sławski, Franciszek (1958-1965), “jeżeli”, in Jan Safarewicz, Andrzej Siudut, editors, Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), Kraków: Towarzystwo Miłośników Języka Polskiego
- ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa; Stanisław Rospond; Witold Taszycki; Stefan Hrabec; Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023), “jeżeli”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- ^ Ida Kurcz (1990), “jeżeli”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language][1] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków; Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 166
Further reading
[edit]- Modern Standard Polish:
- Middle Polish:
- “JEŻELI”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 12.12.2008
- Historic dictionaries:
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814), “jeżeli”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “jeżeli”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1902), “jeżeli”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 2, Warsaw, page 174
- Dialectal dictionaries:
- Jan Karłowicz (1901), “jeżeli, jeźli”, in Słownik gwar polskich [Dictionary of Polish dialects] (in Polish), volume 2: F do K, Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, page 264
Silesian
[edit]Etymology
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Pronunciation
[edit]Conjunction
[edit]jeżeli
- synonym of jeśli
Further reading
[edit]- jeżeli in silling.org
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