pendlovky
Czech
editEtymology
editFrom the verb pendlovat (“shuttle”) + -ka + inflectional suffix -y. The verb comes from German pendeln (“shuttle”), from Pendel (“pendulum”), from Latin pendulum, from pendēre (“hang”).[1]
Pronunciation
editNoun
editpendlovky f pl
- pendulum clock in a long windowed case
- 1995, Zdenek Martínek, “Časoměrná technika”, in Studie o technice v českých zemích[1], volume 2, Praha: Národní technické muzeum, →ISBN, page 646:
- Trvalým článkem jeho výrobní náplně byly tzv. pendlovky, tj. nástěnné hodiny v dlouhé zasklené skříni.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension
editDeclension of pendlovky (pl-only hard feminine reducible)
plural | |
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nominative | pendlovky |
genitive | pendlovek |
dative | pendlovkám |
accusative | pendlovky |
vocative | pendlovky |
locative | pendlovkách |
instrumental | pendlovkami |
Hypernyms
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editReferences
edit- ^ Rejzek, Jiří (2015) “pendlovat”, in Český etymologický slovník [Czech Etymological Dictionary] (in Czech), 3rd (revised and expanded) edition, Praha: LEDA, →ISBN, page 506
Further reading
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