czeg

Czeg, written in lowercase as czeg, is a term used in Polish linguistics to describe an archaic or dialectal form of the interrogative pronoun co in the genitive. In standard contemporary Polish the genitive of co is czego; czeg is not used in modern standard grammar except as a historical variant or in regional speech.

The form appears in Middle Polish and Early Modern Polish texts, and in some regional dialects where older inflectional patterns persisted. It is generally considered nonproductive in modern Polish and is typically found only in quotations, scholarly commentary, or dialect dictionaries.

Usage examples in historical sources show czeg in phrases that today would use czego. For instance, a 17th-century line might read czeg to chcesz?, a construction modern speakers would render as czego to chcesz? The exact usage varies by author, era, and region, reflecting the broader history of Polish inflection.

In dictionaries and grammars of Polish, czeg is categorized as archaic or dialectal rather than a current, productive form. It is of interest mainly to historians of the Polish language, philologists studying historical texts, and readers encountering period writings where such forms may appear.