králík
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Czech[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Diminutive of král (“king”) (as král + -ík), formed as a calque of Middle High German küniclīn, understood by folk etymology to be a diminutive of künic (“king”), despite being in fact derived from Latin cunīculus (“rabbit”) with uncertain origin.[1][2] Compare Polish królik, Lower Sorbian kralik, and Slovak králik.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
králík m anim
Declension[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
- králíček m
See also[edit]
- zajíc m
References[edit]
- ^ "králík" in Jiří Rejzek, Český etymologický slovník, electronic version, Leda, 2007
- ^ Machek, Václav (1968) Etymologický slovník jazyka českého [Etymological Dictionary of the Czech Language], 2nd edition, Prague: Academia
Further reading[edit]
Categories:
- Czech terms suffixed with -ík
- Czech terms calqued from Middle High German
- Czech terms derived from Middle High German
- Czech terms derived from Latin
- Czech terms with IPA pronunciation
- Czech lemmas
- Czech nouns
- Czech masculine nouns
- Czech animate nouns
- Czech diminutive nouns
- Czech masculine animate nouns
- Czech velar-stem masculine animate nouns
- cs:Lagomorphs
- cs:Rabbits