wszystek

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Old Polish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From wiesz +‎ -ystek.[1] First attested in 1413.

Pronunciation

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

Pronoun

wszystek

  1. all, every
    Synonym: każdy
  2. any, whichever
    Synonyms: jakikolwie, którykolwiek
  3. all, whole, entire
    Synonyms: cały, wiesz

Declension

This pronoun needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

particle

Descendants

  • Polish: wszystek
  • Silesian: wszystek
  • Kashubian: wszëtek, wszëstek

References

  1. ^ Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “wszystek”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
  • B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “wszystek”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish wszystek.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfʂɘs.tɛk/
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  • Rhymes: -ɘstɛk
  • Syllabification: wszys‧tek

Adjective

wszystek (not comparable, no derived adverb)

  1. all, every
    Synonym: każdy
  2. all, the whole of
    Synonym: cały
    • 1975, Edward Stachura, Kropka nad ypsylonem:
      lecz przedtem ubierz choćby choć ten listek / nie, nie ćwierć listka / nie, nie pół listka / wszystek listek
      but dress at least this leaf / no, not a quarter of the leaf / no, not a half of the leaf / the whole leaf

Usage notes

Masculine and feminine singular forms of this word are uncommon; more common are the neuter singular forms such as wszystko (everything) and plural forms such as wszyscywszystkie (everyone), which are usually nominalized. Usage as a determiner for singular nouns is also uncommon.

Declension

adjectives
adverbs

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), wszystek is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 168 times in scientific texts, 148 times in news, 224 times in essays, 169 times in fiction, and 161 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 870 times, making it the 50th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

References

  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “wszystek”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 686

Further reading

Silesian

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish wszystek

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfʂɪs.tɛk/
  • Rhymes: -ɪstɛk
  • Syllabification: wszys‧tek

Pronoun

wszystek

  1. all, every
  2. all, the whole of

Further reading