Old Slovak

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *xribъ.[1] Cognate with Old Czech chrb and Serbo-Croatian hrȋb.

Noun

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chríb m inan

  1. hillock

References

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  1. ^ Králik, Ľubor (2016) “chrbát”, in Stručný etymologický slovník slovenčiny [Concise Etymological Dictionary of Slovak] (in Slovak), Bratislava: VEDA; JÚĽŠ SAV, →ISBN, page 223

Further reading

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  • Majtán, Milan et al., editors (1991–2008), “chríb”, in Historický slovník slovenského jazyka [Historical Dictionary of the Slovak Language] (in Slovak), volumes 1–7 (A – Ž), Bratislava: VEDA, →OCLC