pięćdziesiąt

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Old Polish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pętь desęti. By surface analysis, univerbation of pięć +‎ dziesięć. First attested in the 14th century.

Pronunciation

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

Numeral

pięćdziesiąt

  1. fifty

Noun

pięćdziesiąt nvir pl

  1. (law) judicial pecuniary penalty, originally 15 grzywnas, later with a much lower real value

Derived terms

noun

Descendants

  • Polish: pięćdziesiąt
  • Silesian: piyńdziesiōnt

References

Polish

Polish numbers (edit)
500
 ←  40  ←  49 50 51  →  60  → 
5
    Cardinal: pięćdziesiąt
    Ordinal: pięćdziesiąty
    Adverbial: pięćdziesięciokrotnie
    Multiplier: pięćdziesięciokrotny
    Collective: pięćdziesięcioro
    Numeral noun: pięćdziesiątka
    Relational adjective: pięćdziesiątkowy

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish pięćdziesiąt. By surface analysis, univerbation of pięć +‎ dziesięć.

Pronunciation

 
  • IPA(key): /pjɛɲˈd͡ʑɛ.ɕɔnt/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛɕɔnt
  • Syllabification: pięć‧dzie‧siąt

Numeral

pięćdziesiąt

  1. fifty

Declension

Coordinate terms

Derived terms

noun

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), pięćdziesiąt is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 48 times in scientific texts, 123 times in news, 72 times in essays, 8 times in fiction, and 11 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 262 times, making it the 199th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

References

  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “pięćdziesiąt”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 367

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