wtedy

Polish

Etymology

Univerbation of w +‎ tedy. First attested in the 16th century.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈftɛ.dɘ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛdɘ
• Syllabification: wte‧dy

Adverb

wtedy (not comparable)

1. back then, then (at that time)

   Synonyms: naówczas, natedy, natenczas, podówczas, wonczas, wówczas, wtenczas

2. at the time

Descendants

• → Silesian: wtedy

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), wtedy is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 51 times in scientific texts, 6 times in news, 23 times in essays, 109 times in fiction, and 112 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 301 times, making it the 167th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

Further reading

• wtedy in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• wtedy in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “wtedy”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “wtedy”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1919), “wtedy”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 7, Warsaw, page 782

Silesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Polish wtedy. By surface analysis, univerbation of w +‎ tedy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈftɛ.dɪ/
• Rhymes: -ɛdɪ
• Syllabification: wte‧dy

Adverb

wtedy

1. then (at that time)

   Synonyms: natynczŏs, podtynczŏs, tedy, wtynczŏs

Further reading

• wtedy in silling.org