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Old Polish
Etymology
Clipping of Proto-Slavic *nikъto. By surface analysis, ni- + kto. First attested in the 14th century.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /ni(ː)kt/
- IPA(key): (15th CE) /nikt/
Pronoun
nikt m
- no one, nobody
- Synonym: żaden
Declension
Descendants
References
- Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “nikt”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
- Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “nikt”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
- B. Sieradzka-Baziur, editor (2011–2015), “nikt”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN
Polish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited from Old Polish nikt. By surface analysis, ni- + kto.
Pronunciation
Pronoun
nikt m pers
- no one, nobody
Noun
nikt m pers
- (colloquial) no one, nobody (someone of little importance or note)
Declension
Trivia
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), nikt is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 7 times in scientific texts, 7 times in news, 25 times in essays, 90 times in fiction, and 118 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 247 times, making it the 216th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.
References
- ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “nikt”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 292
Further reading
- nikt in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- nikt in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “nikt”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- “NIKT”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 21.09.2022
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “nikt”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “nikt”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1904), “nikt”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 3, Warsaw, page 291
Silesian
Etymology
Inherited from Old Polish nikt. By surface analysis, ni- + kto.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɲikt/
- Rhymes: -ikt
- Syllabification: nikt
Pronoun
nikt m pers
- no one, nobody
Declension
Further reading