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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Czech jazyk, from Proto-Slavic *ęzykъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *inźūˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s. Compare Polish język, Slovak jazyk, Russian язы́к (jazýk).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈjazɪk]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: ja‧zyk

Noun

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jazyk m inan (related adjective jazykový)

  1. (anatomy) tongue (the fleshy muscular organ in the mouth of a mammal)
  2. a thing resembling a tongue
  3. language (a method of interhuman communication)
  4. language, tongue (the conventional system of communication used by a particular community)
  5. language (the parlance of a particular specialist field)
  6. language (a particular style or manner of expression; idiom)

Declension

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Synonyms

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Derived terms

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Further reading

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  • jazyk”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935-1957
  • jazyk”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
  • jazyk”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

Old Czech

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ęzykъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *inźūˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): (13th CE) /ˈjazɨk/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /ˈjazik/

Noun

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jazyk m inan

  1. (anatomy) tongue (the fleshy muscular organ in the mouth of a mammal)
  2. language (a method of interhuman communication)
    býti jednoho jazykato be honest
    jazyk všakýall nations

Declension

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Descendants

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  • Czech: jazyk

Further reading

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Old Slovak

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ęzykъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *inźūˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s. First attested in 1474.

Noun

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jazyk m inan

  1. tongue (flexible muscular organ in the mouth that is used to move food around, for tasting and that is moved into various positions to modify the flow of air from the lungs in order to produce different sounds in speech)
  2. tongue (any long object resembling a tongue)
  3. language (body of words, and set of methods of combining them (called a grammar), understood by a community and used as a form of communication)

Descendants

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References

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

Slovak

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Slovak jazyk, from Proto-Slavic *ęzykъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *inźūˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s. Compare Polish język, Czech jazyk.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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jazyk m inan (genitive singular jazyka, nominative plural jazyky, genitive plural jazykov, declension pattern of dub)

  1. (anatomy) tongue (the fleshy muscular organ in the mouth of a mammal)
  2. a thing resembling a tongue
  3. language (a method of interhuman communication)
  4. language, tongue (the conventional system of communication used by a particular community)
  5. language (the parlance of a particular specialist field)
  6. language (a particular style or manner of expression; idiom)

Declension

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Synonyms

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Derived terms

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References

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  • jazyk”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

Upper Sorbian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ęzỳkъ.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈjazɨk/
  • Rhymes: -azɨk
  • Hyphenation: ja‧zyk
  • Syllabification: ja‧zyk

Noun

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jazyk m inan (diminutive jazyčk, related adjective jazykowy)

  1. (anatomy) tongue (a more or less muscular and mobile organ, typically elongated, found in the oral cavity)

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