cimra

Czech

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *dem-

Proto-Indo-European *dem(H)-ro-s

Proto-Germanic *timrą

Proto-West Germanic *timr

Old High German zimbar

Middle High German zimber

German Zimmerbor.

Czech cimra

Borrowed from German Zimmer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡sɪmra]

Noun

cimra f

1. (colloquial) room (separate part of a building, enclosed by walls, a floor and a ceiling)

   Synonym: místnost

Declension

Declension of cimra (hard feminine reducible)

	singular	plural
nominative	cimra	cimry
genitive	cimry	cimer
dative	cimře	cimrám
accusative	cimru	cimry
vocative	cimro	cimry
locative	cimře	cimrách
instrumental	cimrou	cimrami

Further reading

• “cimra”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
• “cimra”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989