sześćset

See also: szescset

Old Polish

Alternative forms

  • szećset

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Numeral

sześćset

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

Descendants

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

References

Polish

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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Numeral

sześćset

  1. six hundred

Declension

Trivia

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

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

Further reading

Silesian

Alternative forms

  • szejśset

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʂɛɕt͡ɕsɛt/
  • Rhymes: -ɛɕt͡ɕsɛt
  • Syllabification: sześć‧set

Numeral

sześćset

  1. six hundred

Derived terms

adjectives

Further reading

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