dziewięć

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Old Polish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Numeral

dziewięć

  1. nine

Descendants

  • Masurian: dżiejéncz
  • Polish: dziewięć
  • Silesian: dziewiyńć

References

Polish

Polish numbers (edit)
90
 ←  8 9 10  → 
    Cardinal: dziewięć
    Ordinal: dziewiąty
    Adverbial: dziewięciokrotnie, dziewięciokroć
    Multiplier: dziewięciokrotny
    Adverbial qualitative: dziewięciorako
    Multiplier qualitative: dziewięcioraki
    Collective: dziewięcioro
    Numeral noun: dziewiątka
    Relational adjective: dziewiątkowy
    Prefix: dziewięcio-

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish dziewięć.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʑɛ.vjɛɲt͡ɕ/
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  • Rhymes: -ɛvjɛɲt͡ɕ
  • Syllabification: dzie‧więć

Numeral

dziewięć

  1. nine

Declension

Coordinate terms

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), dziewięć is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 28 times in scientific texts, 70 times in news, 28 times in essays, 5 times in fiction, and 4 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 135 times, making it the 444th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

References

  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “dziewięć”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎ (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 103

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