snědý
Czech
Etymology
From Old Czech smědý (where m changed into n probably because of the resemblance with hnědý (“brown”)), from Proto-Slavic *smědъ, whose origin is ambiguous. It might come from Proto-Indo-European *směh₁- (“to dirty”).[1]
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snědý
- dark-skinned, swarthy [since 16th c.]
- 2013, Richard Dostál, Smrt pána z Valdeka[1], Royen Trade, →ISBN, page 97:
- „Žofie ví jen to, že ten chlap sice mluvil velice dobře česky, ale trochu ráčkoval a jinak byl prý podivně snědý.“
„Snědý?“
„Ano tak to vypověděla, jakoby prý byl odněkud z východu.“- "Žofie only knows that the dude spoke Czech very well but mispronounced slightly ‚r‘ and also was strangely dark-skinned."
"Dark-skinned?"
"Yes, that's what she said, as if he was somewhere from the east."
- "Žofie only knows that the dude spoke Czech very well but mispronounced slightly ‚r‘ and also was strangely dark-skinned."
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