nikt
See also: nīkt
Old Polish
[edit]Etymology
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Clipping of Proto-Slavic *nikъto. By surface analysis, ni- + kto. First attested in the 14th century.
Pronunciation
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]nikt m
Declension
[edit]Declension of nikt
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- Boryś, Wiesław (2005), “nikt”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
- Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000), “nikt”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
- 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), “nikt”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN
Polish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
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Inherited from Old Polish nikt. By surface analysis, ni- + kto.
Pronunciation
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]nikt m pers
Noun
[edit]nikt m pers
- (colloquial) no one, nobody (someone of little importance or note)
Declension
[edit]Declension of nikt
Trivia
[edit]According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), nikt is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 7 times in scientific texts, 7 times in news, 25 times in essays, 90 times in fiction, and 118 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 247 times, making it the 216th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]
References
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “nikt”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego[2] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- “nikt”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN[3] (in Polish)
- Maria Renata Mayenowa; Stanisław Rospond; Witold Taszycki; Stefan Hrabec; Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023), “nikt”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- “NIKT”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 21.09.2022
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814), “nikt”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “nikt”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1904), “nikt”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 3, Warsaw, page 291
Silesian
[edit]Etymology
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Inherited from Old Polish nikt. By surface analysis, ni- + kto.
Pronunciation
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]nikt m pers
Declension
[edit]| singular | |
|---|---|
| nominative | nikt |
| genitive | nikogo |
| dative | nikōmu |
| accusative | nikogo |
| instrumental | nikim |
| locative | nikim |
Further reading
[edit]- nikt in silling.org
Categories:
- Old Polish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Old Polish terms derived from Proto-Balto-Slavic
- Old Polish terms inherited from Proto-Slavic
- Old Polish terms derived from Proto-Slavic
- Old Polish clippings
- Old Polish terms prefixed with ni-
- Old Polish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Old Polish lemmas
- Old Polish pronouns
- Polish terms derived from Proto-Slavic
- Polish terms derived from Proto-Balto-Slavic
- Polish terms inherited from Old Polish
- Polish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Polish terms derived from Old Polish
- Polish terms inherited from Proto-Slavic
- Polish terms prefixed with ni-
- Polish 1-syllable words
- Polish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Middle Polish
- Polish terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:Polish/ikt
- Rhymes:Polish/ikt/1 syllable
- Polish lemmas
- Polish pronouns
- Polish nouns
- Polish masculine nouns
- Polish personal nouns
- Polish colloquialisms
- Silesian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Silesian terms inherited from Old Polish
- Silesian terms derived from Proto-Balto-Slavic
- Silesian terms inherited from Proto-Slavic
- Silesian terms derived from Old Polish
- Silesian terms derived from Proto-Slavic
- Silesian terms prefixed with ni-
- Silesian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Silesian terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:Silesian/ikt
- Rhymes:Silesian/ikt/1 syllable
- Silesian lemmas
- Silesian pronouns