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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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Japanese words in Czech lexicon
Karlíková, Helena
The goal of the contribution is to collect most of the Czech words of Japanese origin and to explicate their origin. They are internationalisms introduced into Czech through modern European languages.
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On some Czech-Russian lexical parallels
Janyšková, Ilona
The article deals with some Czech words and their parallels both in literary Russian and in Russian dialects; it also explains their etymology: Czech šutka ‘a goat without horns’ and Russian šutka ‘joke, fun’, Czech slanina ‘meat from pig that is treated with smoke and salt’ and Russian slanina ‘litter, bedding’, Czech čurání ‘urination’ and Russian čuran’je ‘screaming „čur!“’, Czech celovat and Russian celovat’ both ‘kiss’.
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