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Polish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Polish ośm.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɔɕɛm
- Syllabification: o‧siem
Numeral
osiem
- eight
Declension
Coordinate terms
Polish cardinal numbers from 0 to 99
Trivia
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), osiem is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 47 times in scientific texts, 103 times in news, 51 times in essays, 9 times in fiction, and 11 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 221 times, making it the 250th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]
References
- ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “osiem”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 342
Further reading
- osiem in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- osiem in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “ośm, osim”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- “OŚM”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 2017 September 18
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “osiem”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “osiem”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1904), “osiem”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 3, Warsaw, page 845