coś

See also: Appendix:Variations of "cos"

Old Polish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Pronoun

coś n

  1. (attested in Masovia) something

Descendants

  • Polish: coś
  • Silesian: coś

References

  • Sławski, Franciszek (1958-1965) “coś”, in Jan Safarewicz, Andrzej Siudut, editors, Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), Kraków: Towarzystwo Miłośników Języka Polskiego
  • Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “coś”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  • B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “coś”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

Polish

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

 
  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡sɔɕ/
  • Audio 1:(file)
  • Audio 2:(file)
  • Audio 3:(file)
  • 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

Silesian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡sɔɕ/
  • Audio:(file)
  • 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