z wolna

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Polish

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Etymology

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Literally, slowly.

Pronunciation

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  • Syllabification: z wol‧na

Adverb

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z wolna (not comparable)

  1. (idiomatic, literary or dialectal, Central Greater Poland) slowly
    Synonyms: bez pośpiechu, pomału, powoli, wolno

Interjection

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z wolna

  1. (colloquial, dated, idiomatic) cool your heels!, cool your jets!, hold your horses!, stop!, whoa! (slow down)
    Synonyms: hola, stop, wolnego
  2. (colloquial, dated, idiomatic) stop!, whoa! (you should not have done/said that)
    Synonyms: hola, stop, wolnego

Further reading

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  • z wolna in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • z wolna in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Oskar Kolberg (1877) “zwolna”, in “Rzecz o mowie ludu wielkopolskiego”, in Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowéj (in Polish), volume 1, III (Materyjały etnologiczne), page 25