Czechとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• (abbreviation): Cz.

語源

Unadapted borrowing from Polish Czech, from Old Polish Czech, from Old Czech Čech, ultimately a variation and contraction of Proto-Slavic *čelověkъ (“human”).

発音

• enPR: chĕk, IPA: /t͡ʃɛk/
• 異形同音異義語: check, cheque
• 韻: -ɛk

形容詞

Czech (not comparable)

1. Of, from, or pertaining to the Czech Republic (Czechia), the Czech people, culture, or language.
   • 2012 June 28, Jamie Jackson, “Wimbledon 2012: Lukas Rosol shocked by miracle win over Rafael Nadal”, in The Guardian‎:

     A big beast of the men's field was put through the mangle then dumped out of Wimbledon as Rafael Nadal fell at around 10.06pm to Lukas Rosol, a Czech debutant who will never forget this Thursday evening in south-west London.

同意語

• Czechian
• Czechic
• Czechish

派生語

• Czech Silesia
• Czechness
• Czechoslovak

派生した語

• → Burmese: ချက် (hkyak)

名詞

Czech (countable and uncountable, plural Czechs)

1. (countable) A person from the Czech Republic (Czechia) or of Czech descent.
   • 1964, John F. Kennedy, “Immigration Policy”, in A Nation of Immigrants‎, Revised and Enlarged edition, Harper & Row, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 61:

     By 1963, almost 130,000 Czechs had migrated to this country. They tended to gravitate to the farming communities.

固有名詞

Czech

1. (uncountable) A Slavic language primarily spoken in the Czech Republic.
   • 2001 December 2, Giles Milton, “'The Riddle and the Knight'”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 19 April 2022:

     By the time this mysterious knight died in the 1360s, his book was available in every European language, including Dutch, Gaelic, Czech, Catalan, and Walloon.

2. (nonstandard) The Czech Republic (Czechia).
   • 2008, George Stowers, Straight Up, No Sippin': Memoirs of Life and Work Onboard Mega Cruise Ships, →ISBN, page 325:

     She's from Czech, Croatia, or somewhere over there. The ill thing is that we always come together when we're drunk, but half way through our drunken talks, she always gets mad at something and leaves.

   • 2009, Jennifer Lees-Marshment, Political Marketing: Principles and Applications, Routledge, →ISBN, page 237:

     A whole array of companies and consultants are found travelling to Croatia or Czech or China, to extol the latest virtues of electioneering, perhaps via the UK Westminster Foundation for Democracy, […]

関連する語

(language):

• Early Modern Czech
• Middle Czech
• Old Czech
• Proto-Czech

参考

• Bohemian
• Wiktionary’s coverage of Czech terms
• Appendix:Czech Swadesh list for a Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words in Czech

Further reading

• ISO 639-1 code cs, ISO 639-3 code ces (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Czech, ces ⁠
• Czech language on Wikipedia.Wikipedia