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On the etymology of the Czech words kobliha and špína
Valčáková, Pavla
The text deals with the etymology of Czech kobliha, which is explained as a borrowing from Russian kobriza 'round bread, loaf of bread', influenced by Czech oblý 'round'. - Old Czech, Czech špína 'dirt' originated from German spinnen 'to spin', Spinnabfall, Spinnabgang 'dirt, waste from spinning'.
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Marginalia etymologica Bohemica
Vykypěl, Bohumil
In the present paper, the author discusses the word lech found in the treatise De orthographia Bohemica, explains the loss of H- in Old Czech Hřěk and Hřehoř, points out that the suffi x -tel- is an Old Church Slavonic particularity and writes what Holub and Kopečný contributed to the question of the subject of etymology.
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Czech and Slovak laskonka 'a kind of sweet dessert'
Boček, Vít
In the paper, Czech laskonka ‘a kind of sweet dessert’ is explained as a result of the shortening of the word laskomin(k)a ‘appetite, desire‘, ‘delicacy, dainty’, which goes back to Common Slavonic *oskomina, probably an Early Romance loanword.
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