kilka
Polish
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Inherited from Old Polish kilko.
Determiner
[edit]kilka
Declension
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Synonyms
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[edit]According 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
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Borrowed from Russian ки́лька (kílʹka).
Noun
[edit]kilka f
- any clupeid fish of the genus Clupeonella
Declension
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References
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[edit]- “kilka”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego[2] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- “kilka”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN[3] (in Polish)
- 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
- Jan Karłowicz (1901), “kilka i kilku”, in Słownik gwar polskich [Dictionary of Polish dialects] (in Polish), volume 2: F do K, Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, page 353
- kilka in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego
Anagrams
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Noun
[edit]kilka f (plural kilki)
- bun (hairstyle)
Silesian
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Inherited from Old Polish kilko.
Pronunciation
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[edit]kilka
- 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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- Rhymes:Polish/ilka
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- Polish terms derived from Proto-Balto-Slavic
- Polish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂el- (other)
- Polish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *kʷ-
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