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jazyk

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Czech

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Czech jazyk, from Proto-Slavic *ęzykъ, from earlier *inzū́kus, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *inźūˀs, from earlier *dinźūˀs, Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s. Compare Polish język, Slovak jazyk, Russian язы́к (jazýk).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈjazɪk]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: ja‧zyk

Noun

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jazyk m inan (relational adjective jazykový, diminutive jazýček)

  1. (anatomy) tongue (the fleshy muscular organ in the mouth of a mammal)
  2. a thing resembling a tongue
  3. language (a method of interhuman communication)
  4. language, tongue (the conventional system of communication used by a particular community)
  5. language (the parlance of a particular specialist field)
  6. language (a particular style or manner of expression; idiom)

Declension

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Synonyms

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Derived terms

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Further reading

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Old Czech

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ęzykъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *inźūˀs, from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): (13th CE) /ˈjazɨk/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /ˈjazik/

Noun

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jazyk m inan

  1. (anatomy) tongue (the fleshy muscular organ in the mouth of a mammal)
  2. language (a method of interhuman communication)
    býti jednoho jazykato be honest
    jazyk všakýall nations

Declension

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Descendants

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  • Czech: jazyk

Further reading

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Old Slovak

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ęzykъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *inźūˀs, from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s. First attested in 1474.

Noun

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jazyk m inan

  1. tongue (flexible muscular organ in the mouth that is used to move food around, for tasting and that is moved into various positions to modify the flow of air from the lungs in order to produce different sounds in speech)
  2. tongue (any long object resembling a tongue)
  3. language (body of words, and set of methods of combining them (called a grammar), understood by a community and used as a form of communication)

Descendants

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Further reading

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  • Majtán, Milan et al., editors (1991–2008), “jazyk”, in Historický slovník slovenského jazyka [Historical Dictionary of the Slovak Language] (in Slovak), volumes 1–7 (A – Ž), Bratislava: VEDA, →OCLC

Slovak

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Slovak jazyk, from Proto-Slavic *ęzykъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *inźūˀs, from earlier *dinźūˀs, from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s. Compare Polish język, Czech jazyk.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /jazik/, [ˈjazik]
  • Rhymes: -azik
  • Hyphenation: ja‧zyk
  • Audio (Bratislava):(file)

Noun

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jazyk m inan (relational adjective jazykový or jazyčný, diminutive jazýček, augmentative jazyčisko)

  1. (anatomy) tongue (the fleshy muscular organ in the mouth of a mammal)
  2. a thing resembling a tongue
  3. language (a method of interhuman communication)
  4. language, tongue (the conventional system of communication used by a particular community)
  5. language (the parlance of a particular specialist field)
  6. language (a particular style or manner of expression; idiom)

Declension

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Declension of jazyk
(pattern dub)
singularplural
nominativejazykjazyky
genitivejazykajazykov
dativejazykujazykom
accusativejazykjazyky
locativejazykujazykoch
instrumentaljazykomjazykmi

Synonyms

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Derived terms

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Further reading

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  • jazyk”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026

Upper Sorbian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ęzỳkъ.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈjazɨk/
  • Rhymes: -azɨk
  • Hyphenation: ja‧zyk
  • Syllabification: ja‧zyk

Noun

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jazyk m inan (relational adjective jazykowy, diminutive jazyčk)

  1. (anatomy) tongue (a more or less muscular and mobile organ, typically elongated, found in the oral cavity)

Declension

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Derived terms

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adjectives

Further reading

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  • jazyk”, in Mudra corpus [Upper Sorbian–Czech dictionary] (in Czech), 2024–2026
  • jazyk” in Soblex