čar
See also: Appendix:Variations of "car"
Czech edit
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čar f
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čar (classifier bôh)
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čar
- a land or region; a country, province, city, etc.
- čar Dak Lak
- Đắk Lắk Province
- čar Êjip
- the land of Egypt
- čar Ƀaƀilôn
- the city of Babylon
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čar f
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Etymology edit
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *čȃrъ, čȃrь (Russian ча́ры (čáry), Polish czar), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷer- (“to do, make, build”) (Sanskrit करोति (karóti), Lithuanian kùrti). Slavic forms with čar- (compare čárati) presuppose a nominal lengthened-grade derivation, i.e. Proto-Balto-Slavic *kēr- (Lithuanian kẽras (“charm, magic”)). Serbo-Croatian i-stem is probably an archaism - lengthened grade is expected in PIE root nouns which yield Balto-Slavic i-stems. PIE root probably already had magical connotations, i.e. denoting remote action by magical means. First attested in the 16th century.
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čȃr m (Cyrillic spelling ча̑р)
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Declension of čar
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References edit
- “čar” in Hrvatski jezični portal
- Skok, Petar (1971) “čar”, in Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika [Etymological Dictionary of the Croatian or Serbian Language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes 1 (A – J), Zagreb: JAZU, page 295
- Mallory, J. P., Adams, D. Q., editors (1997), Encyclopedia of Indo-European culture, London, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, page 362