kilka
Polish
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editInherited from Old Polish kilko.
Determiner
editkilka
Declension
editDeclension of kilka
Alternative forms
edit- kilko, kielko, kielka, kolko, koliko (Middle Polish)
- kila (Far Masovian, Przemyśl)
Derived terms
editnumerals
Trivia
editAccording to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), kilka is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 88 times in scientific texts, 84 times in news, 73 times in essays, 109 times in fiction, and 46 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 400 times, making it the 120th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]
Etymology 2
editBorrowed from Russian ки́лька (kílʹka).
Noun
editkilka f
- any clupeid fish of the genus Clupeonella
Declension
editDeclension of kilka
Further reading
edit- kilka in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- kilka in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “kilka, kilko, kielko, kielka, kolko, koliko”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], (Can we date this quote?)
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “kilka”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “kilka”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1902), “kilka”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 2, Warsaw, page 334
- kilka in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego
Anagrams
editRomani
editNoun
editkilka f (plural kilki)
- bun (hairstyle)
Silesian
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editInherited from Old Polish kilko.
Pronunciation
editNumeral
editkilka
- more than two but less than ten (a quantity from three to nine); several; few [with genitive]
- Synonym: pŏrã
Further reading
edit- kilka in silling.org
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