tysiąc

Old Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tysǫti. First attested in the 14th century.

Pronunciation

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

Numeral

tysiąc

  1. thousand

Declension

This numeral needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

adjectives
  • tysiący
  • tysięcny
adverb
nouns
  • tysiącewnik
  • tysiącnik

Descendants

  • Masurian: tisziónc
  • Polish: tysiąc
  • Silesian: tysiōnc

References

Polish

Polish numbers (edit)
10,000
 ←  100  ←  900 1,000 2,000  →  10,000  → 
100
    Cardinal: tysiąc
    Ordinal: tysięczny, tysiączny
    Adverbial: tysiąckrotnie, tysiąckroć
    Multiplier: tysiąckrotny
    Fractional: promil
    Numeral noun: tysiąc
    Prefix: tysiąc-, tysiąco-

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish tysiąc. Cognate with English thousand. Doublet of tauzen (thousand zloty), a borrowing from German.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɨ.ɕɔnt͡s/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɨɕɔnt͡s
  • Syllabification: ty‧siąc

Noun

tysiąc m inan (abbreviation tys.)

  1. thousand
  2. (card games) Russian Schnapsen

Declension

Derived terms

noun
adjectives

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), tysiąc is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 314 times in scientific texts, 498 times in news, 294 times in essays, 58 times in fiction, and 43 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 1207 times, making it the 32nd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

References

  1. Ida Kurcz (1990) “tysiąc”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 618

Further reading

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