See also: szōsty

Old Polish edit

Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

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

Adjective edit

szósty

  1. sixth

Derived terms edit

adjectives
nouns

Descendants edit

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

References edit

Polish edit

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 edit

Inherited from Old Polish szósty.

Pronunciation edit

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

Adjective edit

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

  1. sixth

Declension edit

Noun edit

szósty m inan

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

Declension edit

Derived terms edit

nouns

Trivia edit

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.[1]

References edit

  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “szósty”, 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 581

Further reading edit