See also: czech

English

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Wiktionary
Czech edition of Wiktionary

Alternative forms

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  • (abbreviation): Cz.

Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from Polish Czech, from Old Polish Czech, from Old Czech Čech, ultimately a variation and contraction of Proto-Slavic *čelověkъ (human).

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Adjective

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Czech (not comparable)

  1. Of, from, or pertaining to the Czech Republic (Czechia), the Czech people, culture, or language.
    • 2012 June 28, Jamie Jackson, “Wimbledon 2012: Lukas Rosol shocked by miracle win over Rafael Nadal”, in the Guardian[1]:
      A big beast of the men's field was put through the mangle then dumped out of Wimbledon as Rafael Nadal fell at around 10.06pm to Lukas Rosol, a Czech debutant who will never forget this Thursday evening in south-west London.

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Descendants

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  • Burmese: ချက် (hkyak)

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Noun

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Czech (countable and uncountable, plural Czechs)

  1. (countable) A person from the Czech Republic (Czechia) or of Czech descent.

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Czech

  1. (uncountable) A Slavic language primarily spoken in the Czech Republic.
    • 2001 December 2, Giles Milton, “'The Riddle and the Knight'”, in The New York Times[3]:
      By the time this mysterious knight died in the 1360s, his book was available in every European language, including Dutch, Gaelic, Czech, Catalan, and Walloon.
  2. (nonstandard) The Czech Republic (Czechia).
    • 2008, George Stowers, Straight Up, No Sippin': Memoirs of Life and Work Onboard Mega Cruise Ships, →ISBN, page 325:
      She's from Czech, Croatia, or somewhere over there. The ill thing is that we always come together when we're drunk, but half way through our drunken talks, she always gets mad at something and leaves.
    • 2009, Jennifer Lees-Marshment, Political Marketing: Principles and Applications, Routledge, →ISBN, page 237:
      A whole array of companies and consultants are found travelling to Croatia or Czech or China, to extol the latest virtues of electioneering, perhaps via the UK Westminster Foundation for Democracy, []
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Old Polish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Old Czech Čech. First attested in 1440.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /t͡ʃʲɛx/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /t͡ʃʲɛx/

Proper noun

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Czech m animacy unattested

  1. (attested in Greater Poland) Czech (person from Czechia)
    • c. 1500, Wokabularz lubiński, Lubiń: inkunabuł Archiwum Archidiecezjalnego w Gnieźnie, sygn. Inc. 78d., page 19v:
      Bohemus est aliquis de Bohemia Czech
      [Bohemus est aliquis de Bohemia Czech]
  2. a male surname

Descendants

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References

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  • Witold Taszycki, editor (1965-1967), “Czech”, in Słownik staropolskich nazw osobowych (in Polish), volume 1, Wrocław: Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich Wydawnictwo Polskiej Akademii Nauk, page 412
  • Ewa Deptuchowa, Mariusz Frodyma, Katarzyna Jasińska, Magdalena Klapper, Dorota Kołodziej, Mariusz Leńczuk, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, editors (2023), “Czech”, in Rozariusze z polskimi glosami. Internetowa baza danych [Dictionaries of Polish glosses, an Internet database] (in Polish), Kraków: Pracownia Języka Staropolskiego Instytut Języka Polskiego Polskiej Akademii Nauk

Polish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʂɛx/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛx
  • Syllabification: Czech

Etymology 1

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Inherited from Old Polish Czech.

Noun

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Czech m pers (female equivalent Czeszka)

  1. Czech; Bohemian
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Proper noun

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Czech m pers

  1. a male surname
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Czech f (indeclinable)

  1. a female surname
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Proper noun

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Czech pl

  1. genitive of Czechy

Further reading

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  • Czech in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • Czech in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Czech”, in Internetowy słownik nazwisk w Polsce [Internet dictionary of surnames in Poland], 2022