See also: tecka, Tecka, and TECKA

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Etymology

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From the Czech tečka (dot, point, spot; period, full stop; tittle; dot (diacritic), tečka).

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Noun

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tečka (plural tečky)

  1. (rare, only in reference to the diacritic’s historical use in Czech, superseded by the háček) A dot diacritic (used to mark consonantal palatalisation).
    • 1977, Folia Slavica, I-II, page 82:
      Unsystematic use of diacritics (the háček (ˇ), čárka (´), tečka (˙)) marks the Strahov copy…as no earlier than mid-15th century.

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Czech

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Etymology

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Coined during Czech National Revival, based on Russian то́чка (tóčka), sharing origin with tknout, týkat.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈtɛt͡ʃka]
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Noun

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tečka f

  1. dot, point, spot
  2. period, full stop (at the end of a sentence)
  3. tittle (such as over i and j)
  4. dot (diacritic), tečka

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Descendants

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  • English: tečka

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Jiří Rejzek (2007) “tečka”, in Český etymologický slovník (in Czech), Leda

Further reading

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