wskroś

Polish

Alternative forms

• skroś, skróś, wskróś

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *skrozě. Compare Belarusian скрозь (skrozʹ), Bulgarian кръз (krǎz), Old Church Slavonic скрозѣ (skrozě), Russian сквозь (skvozʹ), Serbo-Croatian скро̑з, Ukrainian скрізь (skrizʹ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfskrɔɕ/

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• Rhymes: -ɔɕ
• Syllabification: wskroś

Adverb

wskroś (not comparable)

1. (literary) through and through

Derived terms

adverb

• na wskroś

 

Related terms

nouns

• trzos
• trzósło
• trzustka

 

Further reading

• wskroś in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Brückner, Aleksander (1927) “skróś”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna