czterysta

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Old Polish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *četyre sъta. By surface analysis, univerbation of cztery +‎ sta. First attested in the 14th century.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /t͡ʃʲtɛːrɨsta/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /t͡ʃʲterɨsta/

Numeral

czterysta

  1. four hundred
    • 1887, 1889 [1399], Józef Lekszycki, editor, Die ältesten großpolnischen Grodbücher, volume I, number 2906:
      Grizinski... poznal, ize cztirzista grziwen wzøl
      [Gryżyński... poznał, iże cztyrzy sta grzywien wziął]

Descendants

  • Masurian: sztérista
  • Polish: czterysta
  • Silesian: sztyrysta

References

Polish

Polish numbers (edit)
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    Cardinal: czterysta
    Ordinal: czterysetny, czterechsetny
    Adverbial: czterystukrotnie, czterechsetkrotnie
    Multiplier: czterystukrotny, czterechsetkrotny
    Numeral noun: czterysetka
    Prefix: czterystu-

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish czterysta. By surface analysis, univerbation of cztery +‎ sta.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʂtɛ.rɨ.sta/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʂte.rɨ.sta/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɨsta
  • Syllabification: czte‧ry‧sta

Numeral

czterysta

  1. four hundred

Declension

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), czterysta is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 16 times in scientific texts, 39 times in news, 8 times in essays, 1 time in fiction, and 1 time in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 65 times, making it the 1003rd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

References

  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “czterysta”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎ (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 63

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