obec
Czech Edit
Etymology Edit
Inherited from Old Czech obec, from Proto-Slavic *obьťь.
Pronunciation Edit
Noun Edit
obec f
Declension Edit
Derived terms Edit
Further reading Edit
Old Czech Edit
Alternative forms Edit
Etymology Edit
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *obьťь.
Pronunciation Edit
Noun Edit
obec f
- community (society of people living together in a certain territory)
- common people, laity (as opposed to people)
- estate (layers of the population participating in power in a feudal state)
- municipal assembly (collective of people settled in the village and participating in its self-administration)
- Hussite military-power group (revolutionary attempt to create Hussite state power)
- (in translations of Latin) state, empire
- municipality (territorial district of the municipal)
- common property belonging to everyone
Declension Edit
Declension of obec (soft a-stem reducible)
singular | dual | plural | |
---|---|---|---|
nominative | obec | obci | obcě |
genitive | obcě | obcú | obcí |
dative | obci | obcěma | obciem |
accusative | obcu | obci | obcě |
vocative | obce | obci | obcě |
locative | obci | obcú | obcích |
instrumental | obcú | obcěma | obcěmi |
See also Appendix:Old Czech nouns and Appendix:Old Czech pronunciation.
Declension of obec (i-stem reducible)
singular | dual | plural | |
---|---|---|---|
nominative | obec | obci | obci |
genitive | obci | obcú | obcí |
dative | obci | obecma | obcem |
accusative | obec | obci | obci |
vocative | obci | obci | obci |
locative | obci | obcú | obcech |
instrumental | obcú | obecma | obecmi |
See also Appendix:Old Czech nouns and Appendix:Old Czech pronunciation.
Descendants Edit
References Edit
- Jan Gebauer (1903–1916), “obec”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění
Old Polish Edit
Etymology Edit
Borrowed from Old Czech obec. Doublet of obiec, an inherited form. First attested in 1439.
Pronunciation Edit
Noun Edit
obec f
- A vestigial institution of land law consisting in appointing in customary cases, e.g. when nobility is reprimanded, a group of witnesses with an unblemished reputation, long settled in a given area.
- Synonym: obiec
- 1878-1889 [1439], Archiwum Komisji Historycznej[1], volume III, page 343:
- Nobilis Andreas produxit... duos nobiles... post patrem, item produxit nobilem Petrum... et Martinum... post matrem, item produxit duos tercios... de communibus al. s obcze... Iurauerunt primi et sequentes..., quod... Andreas... est nobilis
- [Nobilis Andreas produxit... duos nobiles... post patrem, item produxit nobilem Petrum... et Martinum... post matrem, item produxit duos tercios... de communibus al. z obce... Iurauerunt primi et sequentes..., quod... Andreas... est nobilis]
Descendants Edit
- Polish: obec
References Edit
- Andrzej Bańkowski (2000) Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego (in Polish)
- B. Sieradzka-Baziur, editor (2011–2015), “obec”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN
Polish Edit
Etymology Edit
Inherited from Old Polish obec. Displaced and doublet of obiec, an inherited form.
Pronunciation Edit
Noun Edit
obec f
Declension Edit
Declension of obec
Derived terms Edit
preposition
Related terms Edit
adjecetive
adverb
noun
Further reading Edit
- “obec, obiec”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish], 2010-2023
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807-1814), “obec”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “obec”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1904), “obec”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 3, Warsaw, page 447