siebie

Old Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sȅbe.

Pronunciation

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

Pronoun

siebie

  1. Alternative form of się

Declension

Descendants

  • Masurian: sziebzie
  • Polish: siebie
  • Silesian: siebie

References

Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish siebie.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɕɛ.bjɛ/
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  • Rhymes: -ɛbjɛ
  • Syllabification: sie‧bie

Pronoun

siebie

  1. Alternative form of się

Declension

See also

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), siebie is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 137 times in scientific texts, 41 times in news, 124 times in essays, 430 times in fiction, and 407 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 1139 times, making it the 36th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

References

  1. Ida Kurcz (1990) “siebie”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 526

Further reading

  • siebie in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Silesian

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish siebie.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɕɛbjɛ/
  • Rhymes: -ɛbjɛ
  • Syllabification: sie‧bie

Pronoun

siebie

  1. Alternative form of sie

Further reading

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