borový
Czech
Etymology 1
From bor (“wood consisting of pines”) + -ový. The noun bor comes from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Slavic *borъ. Because in (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Slovak and (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Polish dialects it means "marsh", it is sometimes being connected with Proto-Slavic *bara, meanig the same. More probably it is connected with (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *bʰor-u-. Compare also borůvka.[1]
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borový (not comparable)
- connected with a pine (coniferous tree)
- borový les ― pinewood (forest of pines)
- borová šiška ― pinecone
- 1836, Karel Hynek Mácha, Máj[1]:
- Byl pozdní večer — první máj — / večerní máj — byl lásky čas. / Hrdliččin zval ku lásce hlas, / kde borový zaváněl háj.
- Late evening, on the first of May— / The twilit May — the time of love. / Meltingly called the turtle-dove, / Where rich and sweet pinewoods lay. (translation by Edith Pargeter)
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Etymology 2
From bor (“boron”) + -ový. The noun bor comes from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] German Bor, which is a shortened form of Borax derived from Medieval Latin borax, from Arabic بورق (“būraq”), from Persian بوره (“būrah”).[2]
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