wcześnie

Old Polish

Etymology

From wczesny + -ie. First attested in 1447.

Pronunciation

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

Adverb

wcześnie

  1. averagely, mediocrely
    • 1874-1891 [1447], Rozprawy i Sprawozdania z Posiedzeń Wydziału Filologicznego Akademii Umiejętności, volume XXII, page 41:
      Wczessznye mediocriter
      [Wcześnie mediocriter]

Descendants

  • Polish: wcześnie

References

Polish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈft͡ʂɛɕ.ɲɛ/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈft͡ʂɛɕ.ɲɛ/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛɕɲɛ
  • Syllabification: wcześ‧nie

Adverb

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

adjectives
  • wcześnie urodzony

Trivia

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

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

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