szósty

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See also: szōsty

Old Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *šȅstъ. First attested in the first half of the 13th century.

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

szósty

  1. sixth

Derived terms

adjectives
nouns

Descendants

  • Masurian: sósti
  • Polish: szósty
  • Silesian: szōsty

References

Polish

Polish numbers (edit)
60
 ←  5 6 7  → 
    Cardinal: sześć
    Ordinal: szósty
    Adverbial: sześciokrotnie, sześciokroć
    Multiplier: sześciokrotny
    Adverbial qualitative: sześciorako
    Multiplier qualitative: sześcioraki
    Collective: sześcioro
    Numeral noun: szóstka
    Relational adjective: szóstkowy
    Prefix: sześcio-

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish szósty.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʂus.tɨ/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈʂos.tɨ/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ustɨ
  • Syllabification: szós‧ty

Adjective

szósty (not comparable, no derived adverb, abbreviation 6.)

  1. sixth

Declension

Noun

szósty m inan

  1. denotes the sixth day of the month; the sixth

Declension

Derived terms

nouns

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), szósty is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 23 times in scientific texts, 70 times in news, 22 times in essays, 13 times in fiction, and 9 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 137 times, making it the 438th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

References

  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “szósty”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎ (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 581

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