niedziwa

Polish

Etymology

Univerbation of nie +‎ dziwa.

Pronunciation

Adverb

niedziwa (not comparable)

  1. (Western Greater Poland) synonym of o mało [with negative clause ‘translated in the positive’]
    Synonym: dziwo
    Niedziwa go nie zabił. ― He nearly killed him.

Further reading

  • Oskar Kolberg (1877) “niedziwa”, in “Rzecz o mowie ludu wielkopolskiego”, in Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowéj (in Polish), volume 1, III (Materyjały etnologiczne), page 27
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.