nikt

See also: nīkt

Old Polish

Etymology

Clipping of Proto-Slavic *nikъto. By surface analysis, ni- + kto. First attested in the 14th century.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /ni(ː)kt/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /nikt/

Pronoun

nikt m

  1. no one, nobody
    Synonym: żaden

Declension

Descendants

  • Masurian: nicht
  • Polish: nikt
  • Silesian: nikt

References

Polish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish nikt. By surface analysis, ni- + kto.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɲikt/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈɲikt/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ikt
  • Syllabification: nikt

Pronoun

nikt m pers

  1. no one, nobody

Noun

nikt m pers

  1. (colloquial) no one, nobody (someone of little importance or note)

Declension

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), nikt is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 7 times in scientific texts, 7 times in news, 25 times in essays, 90 times in fiction, and 118 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 247 times, making it the 216th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

References

  1. Ida Kurcz (1990) “nikt”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 292

Further reading

  • nikt in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • nikt in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “nikt”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  • NIKT”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 21.09.2022
  • Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “nikt”, in Słownik języka polskiego
  • Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “nikt”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
  • J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1904), “nikt”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 3, Warsaw, page 291

Silesian

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish nikt. By surface analysis, ni- + kto.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɲikt/
  • Rhymes: -ikt
  • Syllabification: nikt

Pronoun

nikt m pers

  1. no one, nobody

Declension

Further reading

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