dziewięćset

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Old Polish

Etymology

Univerbation of dziewięć +‎ set. First attested in 1427.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /d͡ʑɛvjæ̃(ː)t͡ɕsɛt/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /d͡ʑɛvjæ̃(ː)t͡ɕsɛt/

Numeral

dziewięćset

  1. (attested in Masovia) nine hundred
    • 1950 [1427], Władysław Kuraszkiewicz, Adam Wolff, editors, Zapiski i roty polskie XV-XVI wieku z ksiąg sądowych ziemi warszawskiej, number 2707, Warsaw:
      Jaco mne Msciszek winowath dzewanczseth drzewa zaplaconego
      [Jako mnie Mściszek winowat dziewięćset drzewa zapłaconego]

Descendants

  • Polish: dziewięćset
  • Silesian: dziewiyńćset

References

Polish

Polish numbers (edit)
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    Cardinal: dziewięćset
    Ordinal: dziewięćsetny
    Adverbial: dziewięćsetkrotnie
    Multiplier: dziewięćsetkrotny
    Numeral noun: dziewięćsetka
    Prefix: dziewięćset-, dziewięciuset-

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish dziewięćset. By surface analysis, univerbation of dziewięć +‎ set.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʑɛ.vjɛw̃n.sɛt/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /d͡ʑɛˈvjɛ̃.t͡ɕsɛt/
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  • Rhymes: -ɛw̃nsɛt
  • Syllabification: dzie‧więć‧set

Numeral

dziewięćset

  1. nine hundred

Declension

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), dziewięćset is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 116 times in scientific texts, 184 times in news, 247 times in essays, 18 times in fiction, and 7 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 572 times, making it the 80th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

References

  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “dziewięćset”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎ (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 101

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