Czech
See also: czech
English
editAlternative forms
edit- (abbreviation): Cz.
Etymology
editUnadapted borrowing from Polish Czech, from Old Polish Czech, from Old Czech Čech, ultimately a variation and contraction of Proto-Slavic *čelověkъ (“human”).
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editCzech (not comparable)
- 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.
Synonyms
editDerived terms
editDescendants
edit- → Burmese: ချက် (hkyak)
Translations
editof, from, or pertaining to the country, people, culture or language
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Noun
editCzech (countable and uncountable, plural Czechs)
- (countable) A person from the Czech Republic (Czechia) or of Czech descent.
- 1964, John F. Kennedy, “Immigration Policy”, in A Nation of Immigrants[2], Revised and Enlarged edition, Harper & Row, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 61:
- By 1963, almost 130,000 Czechs had migrated to this country. They tended to gravitate to the farming communities.
Translations
editperson
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Proper noun
editCzech
- (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.
- (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, […]
Related terms
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Translations
editlanguage
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See also
edit- Bohemian
- Wiktionary’s coverage of Czech terms
- Appendix:Czech Swadesh list for a Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words in Czech
Further reading
edit- ISO 639-1 code cs, ISO 639-3 code ces (SIL)
- Ethnologue entry for Czech, ces
- Czech language on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Old Polish
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Old Czech Čech. First attested in 1440.
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editCzech m animacy unattested
- (attested in Greater Poland) Czech (person from Czechia)
- a male surname
Descendants
editReferences
edit- 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
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editInherited from Old Polish Czech.
Noun
editCzech m pers (female equivalent Czeszka)
Declension
editDeclension of Czech
Proper noun
editCzech m pers
- a male surname
Declension
editDeclension of Czech
Proper noun
editCzech f (indeclinable)
- a female surname
Descendants
editEtymology 2
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Proper noun
editCzech pl
Further reading
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- English terms borrowed from Polish
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- English terms derived from Old Polish
- English terms derived from Old Czech
- English terms derived from Proto-Slavic
- English 1-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio pronunciation
- English terms with homophones
- Rhymes:English/ɛk
- Rhymes:English/ɛk/1 syllable
- English lemmas
- English adjectives
- English uncomparable adjectives
- English terms with quotations
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- English nouns with irregular plurals
- English proper nouns
- English nonstandard terms
- en:Czech Republic
- en:Ethnonyms
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- Old Polish terms borrowed from Old Czech
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- Old Polish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Old Polish lemmas
- Old Polish proper nouns
- Old Polish masculine nouns
- Greater Poland Old Polish
- Old Polish terms with quotations
- Old Polish surnames
- Old Polish male surnames
- zlw-opl:People
- zlw-opl:Nationalities
- Polish 1-syllable words
- Polish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Polish terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:Polish/ɛx
- Rhymes:Polish/ɛx/1 syllable
- Polish terms inherited from Old Polish
- Polish terms derived from Old Polish
- Polish lemmas
- Polish nouns
- Polish masculine nouns
- Polish personal nouns
- Polish proper nouns
- Polish surnames
- Polish male surnames
- Polish indeclinable nouns
- Polish feminine nouns
- Polish female surnames
- Polish non-lemma forms
- Polish proper noun forms
- pl:Czech Republic
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