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Old Polish
Etymology
From co + -ś. First attested in the 15th century.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /t͡sɔɕ/
- IPA(key): (15th CE) /t͡sɔɕ/
Pronoun
coś n
- something
Descendants
References
- Sławski, Franciszek (1958-1965) “coś”, in Jan Safarewicz, Andrzej Siudut, editors, Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), Kraków: Towarzystwo Miłośników Języka Polskiego
- Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “coś”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
- B. Sieradzka-Baziur, editor (2011–2015), “coś”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN
Polish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Polish coś. By surface analysis, co + -ś. Compare Kashubian cos and Slovincian cesz.
Pronunciation
Pronoun
coś n
- something
- something (uncertain or unspecified thing)
- something (thing that is superlative or notable in some way)
- something (thing that is separate from something else)
Declension
Declension of coś
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singular
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| nominative
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coś
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| genitive
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czegoś
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| dative
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czemuś
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| accusative
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coś
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| instrumental
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czymś
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| locative
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czymś
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| vocative
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coś
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Noun
coś m animal
- (colloquial) something (object whose name is forgotten by, unknown or unimportant to the user)
Declension
Particle
coś
- (colloquial) something like
- Synonyms: gdzieś, jakiś, jakoś
- (colloquial) for some reason
- Synonyms: czemuś, dlaczegoś, jakoś, z jakiegoś powodu
Derived terms
Trivia
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), coś is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 17 times in scientific texts, 3 times in news, 38 times in essays, 159 times in fiction, and 270 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 487 times, making it the 92nd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.
References
- ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “coś”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 56
Further reading
- coś in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- coś in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “coś”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- “COŚ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 26.03.2020
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “coś”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “coś”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “coś”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 349
- coś in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego
Silesian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈt͡sɔɕ/
- Rhymes: -ɔɕ
- Syllabification: coś
Etymology 1
From co + -ś. Compare Kashubian cos.
Pronoun
coś n
- something (uncertain or unspecified thing)
Declension
This pronoun needs an inflection-table template.
Particle
coś
- something like
Etymology 2
From a reduction of co + żeś.
Pronoun
coś
- aorist of co
Further reading