pięć

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See also: piec

Old Polish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Numeral

pięć

  1. five

Descendants

  • Masurian: psiéncz
  • Polish: pięć
  • Silesian: piyńć

References

Polish

Polish numbers (edit)
50
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    Cardinal: pięć
    Ordinal: piąty
    Adverbial: pięciokrotnie, pięciokroć
    Multiplier: pięciokrotny
    Adverbial qualitative: pięciorako
    Multiplier qualitative: pięcioraki
    Collective: pięcioro
    Numeral noun: piątka
    Relational adjective: piątkowy
    Prefix: pięcio-

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish pięć. Doublet of cynek (cinque) and poncz (punch).

Pronunciation

Numeral

pięć

  1. five

Declension

Coordinate terms

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), pięć is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 83 times in scientific texts, 187 times in news, 97 times in essays, 25 times in fiction, and 39 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 431 times, making it the 367th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

Noun

pięć n (indeclinable)

  1. (colloquial) five (highest school grade)

References

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

Further reading

  • pięć in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • pięć in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Maria Renata Mayenowa; Stanisław Rospond; Witold Taszycki; Stefan Hrabec; Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023), “pięć”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  • PIĘĆ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 21.11.2019
  • Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814), “pięć”, in Słownik języka polskiego
  • Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “pięć”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
  • A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1908), “pięć”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw, page 177