tečka

See also: tecka, Tecka, and TECKA

English

Etymology

From the (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Czech tečka (“dot, point, spot; period, full stop; tittle; dot (diacritic), tečka”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: tĕchʹkə, IPA^(key): /ˈtɛt͡ʃkə/
• (UK) enPR: tĕchʹkă, IPA^(key): /ˈtɛt͡ʃka/

Noun

tečka (plural tečky)

1. (rare, only in reference to the diacritic’s historical use in Czech, superseded by the háček) A dot diacritic (used to mark consonantal palatalisation).
   • 1977, Folia Slavica I–II, page 82:

     Unsystematic use of diacritics (the háček (ˇ), čárka (´), tečka (˙)) marks the Strahov copy…as no earlier than mid-15th century.

Coordinate terms

• (Czech diacritics): čárka (´), háček (ˇ), kroužek (˚), tečka (˙)

Translations

tečka diacritic — see dot

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Czech

Etymology

Coined during Czech National Revival, based on (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Russian то́чка (tóčka), sharing origin with tknout, týkat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛt͡ʃka/

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Noun

tečka f

1. dot, point, spot
2. period, full stop (at the end of a sentence)
3. tittle (such as over i and j)
4. dot (diacritic), tečka

Derived terms

• dvojtečka

Descendants

• English: tečka

See also

• bod
• interpunkce
• puntík