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]‎[1] (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

        Inherited from Old Polish coś.

        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