špaček
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Ultimately from German Spatz (“sparrow”), from Old High German sparo (“sparrow”), from Proto-Germanic *sparwô (“sparrow”), + -ek. Cognate with Russian шпак (špak, “starling”), Ukrainian шпак (špak, “starling”), Belarusian шпак (špak, “starling”), Polish szpak (“starling”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]špaček m anim (relational adjective špaččí)
- starling (bird)
Declension
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “špaček”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
- “špaček”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
- “špaček”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026
Categories:
- Czech terms derived from German
- Czech terms derived from Old High German
- Czech terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Czech terms suffixed with -ek
- Czech terms with IPA pronunciation
- Czech terms with audio pronunciation
- Czech lemmas
- Czech nouns
- Czech masculine nouns
- Czech animate nouns
- Czech masculine animate nouns
- Czech velar-stem masculine animate nouns
- Czech nouns with reducible stem
- cs:Starlings
