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Polish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From jako + -ś. First attested in 1500–1547. Compare Kashubian jakòs, Masurian jekosz, and Silesian jakoś.
Pronunciation
Adverb
jakoś (not comparable)
- somehow (in some way)
Particle
jakoś
- somewhere around (approximately)
- Synonym: około
- (colloquial) for some reason
- (colloquial) kinda, somewhat
- Synonym: trochę
Trivia
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), jakoś is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 0 times in scientific texts, 1 time in news, 12 times in essays, 24 times in fiction, and 51 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 88 times, making it the 721st most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.
References
- ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “jakoś”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “jakoś”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 161
Further reading
- jakoś in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- jakoś in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “jakoś”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “jakoś”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1902), “jakoś”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 2, Warsaw, page 130
Silesian
Etymology
From jako + -ś. Compare Polish jakoś.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈjakɔɕ/
- Rhymes: -akɔɕ
- Syllabification: ja‧koś
Adverb
jakoś (not comparable)
- somehow
Particle
jakoś
- somewhere around (approximately)
- for some reason
Further reading