ostatni

== Old Polish == === Alternative forms === ostatny === Etymology === Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ostatьnъ. By surface analysis, ostać +‎ -ni. The reason ostatni became the default form over ostatny is due to the fact that -tń-/-dń- is easier to pronounce than -tn-/-dn-. First attested in 1401. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /ɔstatniː/ IPA(key): (15th CE) /ɔstatni/ === Adjective === ostatni (attested in Southern Borderlands) last, final, ultimate (at the end of a series) remaining, left, remainder different, other ==== Descendants ==== Polish: ostatni Silesian: ôstatni === References === 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), “ostatni, ostatny”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN == Polish == === Alternative forms === ostatny (Middle Polish) === Etymology === Inherited from Old Polish ostatni. By surface analysis, ostać +‎ -ni. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɔˈstat.ɲi/ Rhymes: -atɲi Syllabification: o‧stat‧ni === Adjective === ostatni (not comparable, derived adverb ostatnio) last, final, ultimate (at the end of a series) last, final, ultimate (such that there will be no other after) last, most recent (having occurred the closest to the present) last (lowest in quality) last (farthest of all from a given quality, character, or condition; most unlikely, or least preferable) (archaic, sometimes nominalized) ultimate, utmost, uttermost Synonyms: ostateczny, krańcowy, szczytowy ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === Trivia === According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), ostatni is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 65 times in scientific texts, 121 times in news, 62 times in essays, 57 times in fiction, and 34 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 339 times, making it the 149th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words. === References === === Further reading === “ostatni”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎[3] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN “ostatni”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[4] (in Polish) Maria Renata Mayenowa; Stanisław Rospond; Witold Taszycki; Stefan Hrabec; Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023), “ostatni, ostatny”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish] “OSTATNI”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 16 November 2017 Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814), “ostatni”, in Słownik języka polskiego Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “ostatni”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861 J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1904), “ostatni”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 3, Warsaw, page 864 ostatni in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego