czterysta

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Old Polish[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *četyre sъta. By surface analysis, univerbation of cztery +‎ sta. First attested in the 14th century.

Pronunciation[edit]

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

Numeral[edit]

czterysta

  1. four hundred
    • 1887, 1889 [1399], Józef Lekszycki, editor, Die ältesten großpolnischen Grodbücher, volume I, number 2906:
      Grizinski... poznal, ize cztirzista grziwen wzøl
      [Gryżyński... poznał, iże cztyrzy sta grzywien wziął]

Descendants[edit]

  • Masurian: sztérista
  • Polish: czterysta
  • Silesian: sztyrysta

References[edit]

Polish[edit]

Polish numbers (edit)
4,000
 ←  300 400 500  → 
40
    Cardinal: czterysta
    Ordinal: czterysetny, czterechsetny
    Adverbial: czterystukrotnie, czterechsetkrotnie
    Multiplier: czterystukrotny, czterechsetkrotny
    Numeral noun: czterysetka
    Prefix: czterystu-

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Old Polish czterysta. By surface analysis, univerbation of cztery +‎ sta.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʂtɛ.rɨ.sta/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʂte.rɨ.sta/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɨsta
  • Syllabification: czte‧ry‧sta

Numeral[edit]

czterysta

  1. four hundred

Declension[edit]

Trivia[edit]

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), czterysta is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 16 times in scientific texts, 39 times in news, 8 times in essays, 1 time in fiction, and 1 time in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 65 times, making it the 1003rd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “czterysta”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎[1] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 63

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