Czech
EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- (abbreviation): Cz.
EtymologyEdit
From Polish Czech, from Czech Čech, ultimately a variation and contraction of Proto-Slavic *čelověkъ (“human”).
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
Czech (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.
SynonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- → Burmese: ချက် (hkyak)
TranslationsEdit
of, from, or pertaining to the country, people, culture or language
|
NounEdit
Czech (countable and uncountable, plural Czechs)
- (countable) A person from the Czech Republic (Czechia) or of Czech descent.
- 1964, Kennedy, John F., “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.
TranslationsEdit
person
|
Proper nounEdit
Czech
- (uncountable) A Slavic language primarily spoken in the Czech Republic.
- (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 termsEdit
(language):
TranslationsEdit
language
|
See alsoEdit
- Bohemian
- Wiktionary’s coverage of Czech terms
- Appendix:Czech Swadesh list for a Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words in Czech
Further readingEdit
- ISO 639-1 code cs, ISO 639-3 code ces (SIL)
- Ethnologue entry for Czech, ces
- Czech language on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
PolishEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
Czech m pers (feminine Czeszka)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of Czech
Proper nounEdit
Czech m pers or f
DeclensionEdit
Masculine surname:
Declension of Czech
The feminine surname is indeclinable.
Proper nounEdit
Czech pl