dlaczego

Old Polish

Etymology

Univerbation of dla + czego, literally for what. First attested in the end of the fifteenth century.

Pronunciation

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

Conjunction

dlaczego

  1. that's why, so, ergo
    • 1928 [End of the fifteenth century], Jan Janów, editor, Zespół ewangelijny Biblioteki Ordynacji Zamoyskich nr 1116, Warsaw, page 307:
      Dvch boszy na myą, dlyaczego pomazal mya vzyawyacz vbogym (propter quod unxit me, evangelizare pauperibus misit me Luc 4, 18)
      [Duch boży na mię, dlaczego pomazał mię wzjawiać ubogim (propter quod unxit me, evangelizare pauperibus misit me Luc 4, 18)]

Descendants

  • Masurian: dlácégój, lácégo, lácégój
  • Polish: dlaczego
  • Silesian: dlŏczego

References

Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish dlaczego. By surface analysis, univerbation of dla + czego. Compare Kashubian dlôczegò and Slovincian dluczú.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dlaˈt͡ʂɛ.ɡɔ/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /dlɒˈt͡ʂɛ.ɡɔ/
  • (file)
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  • Rhymes: -ɛɡɔ
  • Syllabification: dla‧cze‧go

Pronoun

dlaczego

  1. (interrogative) why (for what cause, reason, or purpose)
    Synonym: czemu

Declension

Derived terms

pronouns

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), dlaczego is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 11 times in scientific texts, 3 times in news, 23 times in essays, 68 times in fiction, and 160 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 265 times, making it the 195th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

References

  1. Ida Kurcz (1990) “dlaczego”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 74

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