Polish edit

Polish numbers (edit)
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    Cardinal: osiemnaście
    Ordinal: osiemnasty
    Adverbial: osiemnastokrotnie
    Multiplier: osiemnastokrotny
    Collective: osiemnaścioro
    Numeral noun: osiemnastka
    Relational adjective: osiemnastkowy
    Prefix: osiemnasto-

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From osiemnaście +‎ -y. First attested in 1511–1540.[1] Displaced Old Polish ośmnaćcie. Compare Kashubian òsmënôsti, Masurian ôsziémnásti, Silesian ôśminŏsty, and Slovincian wôsëmnostny.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ɔ.ɕɛmˈnas.tɨ/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ɔ.ɕɛmˈnas.tɨ/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -astɨ
  • Syllabification: o‧siem‧nas‧ty

Adjective edit

osiemnasty (not comparable, no derived adverb, abbreviation 18.)

  1. eighteenth

Declension edit

Derived terms edit

adjectives
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Trivia edit

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), osiemnasty is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 14 times in scientific texts, 37 times in news, 3 times in essays, 2 times in fiction, and 2 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 58 times, making it the 1112th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]

Noun edit

osiemnasty m inan

  1. denotes eighteenth day of the month; the eighteenth

Declension edit

References edit

  1. ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “ośmnasty, osmynasty, osmenasty, ośminasty, [osmynaście]”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  2. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “osiemnasty”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎[1] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 342

Further reading edit