sześćset

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See also: szescset

Old Polish[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *šestь sъtъ. By surface analysis, univerbation of sześć +‎ set. First attested in the 15th century.

Pronunciation[edit]

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

Numeral[edit]

sześćset

  1. six hundred
    • Middle of the 15th century, Rozmyślanie o żywocie Pana Jezusa[2], page 625:
      Yze... Zagar yednem lyemyąszem zabyl schesczszeth luda
      [Iże... Sa[m]gar jednem lemieszem zabił sześćset luda]

Descendants[edit]

  • Masurian: seszczset
  • Polish: sześćset
  • Silesian: sześćset

References[edit]

Polish[edit]

Polish numbers (edit)
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60
    Cardinal: sześćset
    Ordinal: sześćsetny
    Adverbial: sześćsetkrotnie
    Multiplier: sześćsetkrotny
    Numeral noun: sześćsetka
    Prefix: sześćset-, sześciuset-

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Old Polish sześćset. By surface analysis, univerbation of sześć +‎ set.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): (standard) /ˈʂɛɕ.sɛt/, (colloquial) /ˈʂɛj.sɛt/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈʂɛɕ.t͡ɕsɛt/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛɕsɛt
  • Syllabification: sześć‧set

Numeral[edit]

sześćset

  1. six hundred

Declension[edit]

Trivia[edit]

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), sześćset is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 27 times in scientific texts, 27 times in news, 7 times in essays, 2 times in fiction, and 4 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 67 times, making it the 978th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “sześćset”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎[1] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 578

Further reading[edit]

Silesian[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Old Polish sześćset. By surface analysis, sześć +‎ set.

Pronunciation[edit]

Numeral[edit]

sześćset

  1. six hundred

Derived terms[edit]

adjectives

Further reading[edit]