povidla

Czech

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Povidla

Etymology

Possibly from vít (“to wind, roll”), meaning “something produced by stirring, mixing of a boiled fruit juice”.^[1] An alternate etymology derives the word ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peu- (“to cleanse, purify”), in the sense “purified concoction”.^[2]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈpovɪdla]

Noun

povidla n pl

plum stew, powidl

Declension

Declension of povidla (pl-only hard neuter reducible)

	plural
nominative	povidla
genitive	povidel
dative	povidlům
accusative	povidla
vocative	povidla
locative	povidlech
instrumental	povidly

Descendants

→ Austrian German: Powidl

References

^ Jiří Rejzek (2007) “povidla”, in Český etymologický slovník (in Czech), Leda
^ Machek, Václav (1968) Etymologický slovník jazyka českého [Etymological Dictionary of the Czech Language], 2nd edition, Prague: Academia