chort

English

Etymology

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Noun

chort (plural chorts)

1. (glassblowing, obsolete) A seventeenth-century unit of Burgundy glass.

Upper Sorbian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *xъ̀rtъ, *xъ̑rtъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʰɔʀt/
• Rhymes: -ɔʀt
• Hyphenation: chort
• Syllabification: chort

Noun

chort m animal (zoology)

1. greyhound
2. (figuratively) vulture

Declension

Declension of chort (masculine hard stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	chort	chortaj	chorty
genitive	chorta	chortow	chortow
dative	chortej	chortomaj	chortam
accusative	chorta	chortaj	chorty
instrumental	chortom	chortomaj	chortami
locative	chorće	chortomaj	chortach
vocative	chorto, chorće	chortaj	chorty

References

• “chort” in Soblex
• “chort”, in Mudra corpus [Upper Sorbian–Czech dictionary] (in Czech), 2024–2025