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| DaraghM Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 6152 days ago 1947 posts - 2923 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Hungarian | Message 1 of 13 07 April 2008 at 9:43am | IP Logged |
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Has Czech lent many words to the English language ? The only word that springs to mind is robot.
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| Vlad Trilingual Super Polyglot Senior Member Czechoslovakia foreverastudent.com Joined 6585 days ago 443 posts - 576 votes 2 sounds Speaks: Czech*, Slovak*, Hungarian*, Mandarin, EnglishC2, GermanC2, ItalianC1, Spanish, Russian, Polish, Serbian, French Studies: Persian, Taiwanese, Romanian, Portuguese | Message 2 of 13 07 April 2008 at 9:52am | IP Logged |
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This is absolutely the first time I have even heared about a concept like this :-)
And as far as I know..'Robot' is very arguably a Czech word, since it has only been invented by a writer, who incidently happens to be Czech. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| DaraghM Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 6152 days ago 1947 posts - 2923 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Hungarian | Message 3 of 13 07 April 2008 at 10:23am | IP Logged |
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Quickly searched and the writer is Karel Čapek. Is the word pistol originally a Czech word ?
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| showtime17 Trilingual Hexaglot Senior Member Slovakia gainweightjournal.co Joined 6085 days ago 154 posts - 210 votes Speaks: Russian, English*, Czech*, Slovak*, French, Spanish Studies: Ukrainian, Polish, Dutch | Message 4 of 13 07 April 2008 at 2:32pm | IP Logged |
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dollar... comes from Czech tolar or German thaler. This was money minted in the old Kingdom of Bohemia.
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| tomasus Pentaglot Groupie Czech Republic Joined 7033 days ago 54 posts - 56 votes Speaks: Slovak, Czech*, EnglishC1, German, Russian | Message 5 of 13 29 April 2008 at 4:21am | IP Logged |
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Yes, pistol is originating from píšťala, which is an old Hussite weapon.
Robot is well known. There is rumour that brother of Karel Capek, Josef Capek, actually came up with that word. Not sure if this is correct, someone claimed houfnice (weapon) gave birth to English word howitzer. Dollar comes from tolar, which originated from Joachimsthaler. Tolars were coined in Joachimsthal (Jáchymov in Czech, translated as Joachim's valley), Joachimsthaler is an adjectivum. Then there is hacek, or caron, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A1%C4%8Dek Polka - the dance name. Geographically based names like Semtex (after Semtin city) and Pilsner (Pilsen city). Edited by tomasus on 29 April 2008 at 4:22am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Captain Haddock Diglot Senior Member Japan kanjicabinet.tumblr. Joined 6769 days ago 2282 posts - 2814 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, Korean, Ancient Greek | Message 6 of 13 29 April 2008 at 10:27am | IP Logged |
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You guys have most of them covered.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_Czech_ origin 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Euphorion Hexaglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5341 days ago 106 posts - 147 votes Speaks: Slovak*, Czech, EnglishC2, GermanC1, SpanishC2, French | Message 7 of 13 07 May 2010 at 12:48am | IP Logged |
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There is a very recent Czech word that got into the world economic vocabulary - "tunnelling" - even though it isnt a very lucky one. It comes from the massive misuses of funds and frauds in the 90s.
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| Smart Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5340 days ago 352 posts - 398 votes Speaks: Spanish, English*, Latin, French Studies: German | Message 8 of 13 07 May 2010 at 1:28am | IP Logged |
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"Czech" has given us only a few words. (Bohemian gave a few more)
Thanks for the wiki link Captain Edited by Smart on 07 May 2010 at 1:29am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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