daleki

See also: daléki

Old Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *dalekъ. First attested in the 14th century.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /dalʲɛkiː/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /dalʲɛki/

Adjective

daleki (comparative dalszy, adverb daleko)

  1. far, distant
    • Beginning of the 15th century, Kazania gnieźnieńskie, page 2a:
      A tedy... tho bilo... tako othpouedzano, isczy... mili Xt s dalekichcy stron on prydzecz
      [A tedy... to było... tako otpowiedziano, iżci... Kryst miły, z dalekichci stron on przydzieć]
  2. long
    • Beginning of the 15th century, Kazania gnieźnieńskie, page gl. 61b:
      Daleka droga hoc spacium
      [Daleka droga hoc spacium]
  3. (in the comparative, of time) further, longer
    • 1930 [Fifteenth century], “Jos”, in Ludwik Bernacki, editor, Biblia królowej Zofii (Biblia szaroszpatacka), 6, 5:
      Gdysz zabrzni zwyøk trøbny dalszy (cumque insonuerit vox tubae longior), ...wzvola wszistek lvd
      [Gdyż zabrzni źwięk trąbny dalszy (cumque insonuerit vox tubae longior), ...wzwoła wszystek lud]
  4. later
    • 1897 [1418], Teki Adolfa Pawińskiego, volume VII, number 400:
      Jakom tim kmeczom, za gesch pan Moscicz ranczil, ne dawal dalschego roku nisz ten, na ktori mi pan Mosticz ranczil
      [Jakom tym kmieciom, za jeż pan Mościc ręczył, nie dawał dalszego roku niż ten, na ktory mi pan Mościc ręczył]
  5. (of relatives) distant
    • 1895 [1448–1450], Franciszek Piekosiński, editor, Tłumaczenia polskie statutów ziemskich, Kodeks Świętosławów, page 18:
      Sząly od szebye rodnye dalyeczi (si autem sunt distantes), nye gynszą, iano trzech lyath dawnosczy bandze mocz odbicz obwynyoni
      [Sąli od siebie ro[z]dnie dalecy (si autem sunt distantes), nie jinszą jano trzech lat dawności[ą] będzie moc odbyć obwiniony]

Derived terms

nouns
adverbs
noun
verbs
  • dalić się impf

Descendants

  • Masurian: daléki
  • Polish: daleki
  • Silesian: daleki

References

Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish daleki.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /daˈlɛ.ki/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /daˈlɛ.ki/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛki
  • Syllabification: da‧le‧ki

Adjective

daleki (comparative dalszy, superlative najdalszy, adverb daleko, Middle Polish superlative nadalszy)

  1. far, distant (not physically close)
    Synonyms: odległy, oddalony
    Antonyms: bliski, niedaleki
  2. far (coming from a long distance)
  3. far (coming from distant places)
  4. far (being very different from a particular thing) [+ od (genitive) = from what]
    Antonyms: bliski, niedaleki
  5. distant (having little or no relation with something) [+dative = to whom]
    Synonym: niepodobny
    Antonyms: bliski, ścisły
  6. distant (of something with which someone or something has little contact)
    Antonym: bliski
  7. (of relatives) distant
    Antonym: bliski
  8. (of events) distant (having happened a long time ago or in a long time)
    Synonyms: (of past events) dawny, (of future events) odległy
  9. long-lasting
  10. long-distance
  11. uninteresting
  12. distant (not equal to something, incompatible with something)
  13. (Middle Polish) substantial, large, significant
  14. (Middle Polish) indirect; incomplete
  15. (Middle Polish) remote; Further details are uncertain.
    • 1532, Bartłomiej z Bydgoszczy, Słownik łacińsko-polski, page 2b:
      Abditus, dalyeky.
    • 1564, J. Mączyński, Lexicon, page 98c:
      E longinquo, Z dáleká
    • 1564, J. Mączyński, Lexicon, page 501c:
      Ulterior, Dálſzy.
    • 1588, A. Calepinus, Dictionarium decem linguarum, page 201b:
      Citerior ‒ Dalſzy, oddąlony.

Declension

Derived terms

adjectives
adverb
nouns
verbs
  • wrócić z dalekiej podróży pf

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), daleki is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 53 times in scientific texts, 79 times in news, 99 times in essays, 43 times in fiction, and 11 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 285 times, making it the 177th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

References

  1. Ida Kurcz (1990), daleki”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków; Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 68

Further reading

Serbo-Croatian

Adjective

daleki

  1. inflection of dàlek:
    1. masculine nominative/vocative plural
    2. definite masculine nominative/vocative singular
    3. definite inanimate masculine accusative singular

Silesian

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish daleki.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /daˈlɛki/
  • Rhymes: -ɛki
  • Syllabification: da‧le‧ki

Adjective

daleki (comparative dalszy, superlative nojdalszy, adverb daleko)

  1. far, distant

Declension

Further reading

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