coś

See also: Appendix:Variations of "cos"

Old Polish

Etymology

From co + . First attested in the 15th century.

Pronunciation

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

Pronoun

coś n

  1. something

Descendants

  • Masurian: cosz
  • Polish: coś
  • Silesian: coś

References

Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish coś. By surface analysis, co + . Compare Kashubian cos and Slovincian cesz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡sɔɕ/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈt͡sɔɕ/
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  • Rhymes: -ɔɕ
  • Syllabification: coś

Pronoun

coś n

  1. something
    1. something (uncertain or unspecified thing)
    2. something (thing that is superlative or notable in some way)
    3. something (thing that is separate from something else)

Declension

Noun

coś m animal

  1. (colloquial) something (object whose name is forgotten by, unknown or unimportant to the user)

Declension

Particle

coś

  1. (colloquial) something like
    Synonyms: gdzieś, jakiś, jakoś
  2. (colloquial) for some reason
    Synonyms: czemuś, dlaczegoś, jakoś, z jakiegoś powodu

Derived terms

pronoun

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), coś is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 17 times in scientific texts, 3 times in news, 38 times in essays, 159 times in fiction, and 270 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 487 times, making it the 92nd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

References

  1. Ida Kurcz (1990) “coś”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 56

Further reading

  • coś in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • coś in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “coś”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  • COŚ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 26.03.2020
  • Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “coś”, in Słownik języka polskiego
  • Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “coś”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
  • J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “coś”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 349
  • coś in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego

Silesian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡sɔɕ/
  • Rhymes: -ɔɕ
  • Syllabification: coś

Etymology 1

From co + . Compare Kashubian cos.

Pronoun

coś n

  1. something (uncertain or unspecified thing)
Declension

This pronoun needs an inflection-table template.

Particle

coś

  1. something like

Etymology 2

From a reduction of co + żeś.

Pronoun

coś

  1. aorist of co

Further reading

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