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wcześnie

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Old Polish

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Etymology

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    From wczesny + -ie. First attested in 1447.

    Pronunciation

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    • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /ft͡ʃʲɛɕɲɛ/
    • IPA(key): (15th CE) /ft͡ʃʲɛɕɲɛ/

    Adverb

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    wcześnie

    1. (attested in Sieradz-Łęczyca) averagely, mediocrely
      • 1874-1891 [1447], Rozprawy i Sprawozdania z Posiedzeń Wydziału Filologicznego Akademii Umiejętności[2], [3], [4], volume XXII, Łęczyca, page 41:
        Wczessznye mediocriter
        [Wcześnie mediocriter]

    Descendants

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    • Polish: wcześnie

    References

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    Polish

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    Etymology

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      Inherited from Old Polish wcześnie. By surface analysis, wczesny +‎ -ie.

      Pronunciation

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      • Rhymes: -ɛɕɲɛ
      • Syllabification: wcześ‧nie

      Adverb

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      wcześnie (comparative wcześniej, superlative najwcześniej)

      1. early (close to the beginning; at a time before expected; sooner than usual)
        Antonym: późno
      2. early (close to the beginning of the day)
        Antonym: późno

      Derived terms

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      Trivia

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      According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), wcześnie is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 13 times in scientific texts, 11 times in news, 8 times in essays, 20 times in fiction, and 17 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 69 times, making it the 937th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

      References

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      1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990), “wcześnie”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎[1] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków; Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 656

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