nikt

== 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 no one, nobody Synonym: żaden ==== Declension ==== ==== Descendants ==== Polish: nikt Silesian: nikt === References === Boryś, Wiesław (2005), “nikt”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000), “nikt”, 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), “nikt”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN == Polish == === Alternative forms === niekto (Middle Polish) nikto (dialectal) nicht (Middle Polish, Kuyavia) nifto (Podegrodzie) === Etymology === Inherited from Old Polish nikt. By surface analysis, ni- +‎ kto. === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -ikt Syllabification: nikt === Pronoun === nikt m pers no one, nobody === Noun === nikt m pers (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. === References === === 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 no one, nobody ==== Declension ==== === Further reading === nikt in silling.org