wcale
Kashubian
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Kashubian wcale
Borrowed from Polish wcale. By surface analysis, univerbation of w + cale.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈft͡sa.lɛ/
- Rhymes: -alɛ
- Syllabification: wca‧le
Particle
wcale
- (in the negative) not at all
- Synonym: cale
- quite, rather, completely, wholly
- Synonym: cale
Further reading
- Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011), “wcale”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi[2]
- “wcale”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022
Polish
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Polish wcale
Univerbation of w + cale.[1][2][3] First attested in the 17th century.[4] Compare English at all.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈft͡sa.lɛ/
- (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈft͡sa.lɛ/
- (Greater Poland):
- (Kuyavia) IPA(key): [ˈft͡sa.lɛ]
- (Central Greater Poland) IPA(key): [ˈft͡sa.lɛ]
- (Masovia):
- (Masuria) IPA(key): [ˈft͡sæ.lɛ]
- (Near Masovian) IPA(key): [ˈft͡sa.lɛ]
- (Far Masovian) IPA(key): [ˈft͡sa.lɛ]
- (Lesser Poland):
- (Kielce) IPA(key): [ˈft͡sa.lɛ]
- (Western Kraków) IPA(key): [ˈft͡sa.lɛ]
- (Lasovia) IPA(key): [ˈft͡sa.lɛ]
- (Biecz) IPA(key): [ˈft͡sa.lɛ]
- (Western Lublin) IPA(key): [ˈft͡sa.lʲɛ]
- (Goral):
- (Podhale) IPA(key): [ˈft͡sa.lɛ]
Audio 1: (file) Audio 2: (file) - Rhymes: -alɛ
- Syllabification: wca‧le
Particle
wcale
- (in the negative) not at all
- (in the negative) not in the slightest
- Near-synonym: bynajmniej
- (colloquial) quite, rather, completely, wholly
- (Near Masovian, Zakroczym) synonym of w całości
- (Podhale, Zakopane, Ząb) synonym of może
Adverb
wcale
- (Kuyavia, Raciążek, Central Greater Poland, Kalisz, Far Masovian, Przasnysz, Masuria, Podlachia, Kielce, Staszów, Lasovia, Mielec) synonym of zupełnie / całkowicie
- (Western Kraków, Rudawa, Biecz, Ropczyce-Sędziszów County, Podhale, Rabka-Zdrój) synonym of bardzo
- (Lublin) synonym of dostatnio
Derived terms
proverbs
Descendants
Trivia
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), wcale is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 18 times in scientific texts, 4 times in news, 19 times in essays, 31 times in fiction, and 53 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 125 times, making it the 480th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[5]
References
- ^ Boryś, Wiesław (2005), “wcale”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
- ^ Mańczak, Witold (2017), “wcale”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN
- ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000), “cale”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
- ^ “WCALE”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 20.09.2022
- ^ Ida Kurcz (1990), “wcale”, 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 655
Further reading
- “wcale”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego[3] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- “wcale”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN[4] (in Polish)
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814), “wcale”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “wcale”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1919), “wcale”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 7, Warsaw, page 485
- Jan Karłowicz (1911), “wcale”, in Jan Łoś, editors, Słownik gwar polskich [Dictionary of Polish dialects] (in Polish), volumes 6: U—Ż, Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, page 81
Silesian
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Silesian wcale
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈft͡sa.lɛ/
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -alɛ
- Syllabification: wca‧le
Particle
wcale
- (in the negative) not at all
- quite, rather, completely, wholly
Further reading
- wcale in silling.org
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