Das tschechische Adjektiv ryzí, ursprünglich 'rotbraun, fuchsrot', hat die Bedeutung 'pur, ohne Beimischung' (besonders von Gold) wahrscheinlich unter dem Einfluss der mitellateinischen Wortverbindung aurum obrissum/obrizum 'pures Gold' gewonnen; etymologisch unklares lat. Adjektiv obrissum wird nämlich durch Volksetymologie mit lat. russus 'rot' verbunden. Im gegenwärtigen Tschechischen hat Adj. ryzí die ursprüngliche Bedeutung 'rotbraun' ganz verloren.
Church Slavonic sanĭ, snŭ, sanŭ 'dragon (= devil)' is used in the translation of Isaiah´s Prophecy (Is 27,1) instead of Greek ofis 'snake'. In both cases these are substitutions of a taboo term for devil. And the word sanĭ, which is etymologically less clear, can be a shortened version of (due to de-tabooing) a taboo word sotona, satana 'adversary of God (= devil)'.
The Czech Etymological Lexicon, version 1.0, contains 10,502 Czech words, each annotated with a sequence of ISO 639-3 language codes representing its etymological origin. The dataset is provided in a simple tab-separated format, with the first column containing the lemma and the second listing the language codes separated by commas.
Example entry:
architekt deu,lat,ell loan
The word architekt originated from Greek, and came to Czech through Latin and German.
The third column indicates whether the word is a loanword (marked as "loan") or a native word (marked as "native"). Note that "native" refers to inherited words as opposed to loanwords.
The language sequences were extracted from the printed dictionary REJZEK, Jiří. Český etymologický slovník [Czech etymological dictionary]. LEDA, 2015. The extraction of language sequences from the entries in the original dictionary was fully automated and, therefore, may contain imperfections. Please refer to the original dictionary for highly precise information.
DeriNet is a lexical network modeling derivational and compositional relations in Czech. The nodes of the network represent Czech lexemes, while the edges capture word-formational relations between derived words and their base word(s). The current version, DeriNet 2.3, introduces several key improvements over version 2.2:
(a) the set of 1,040,126 lexemes is aligned with the latest version of MorfFlex CZ (version 2.1),
(b) 5,781 derivational trees containing loanwords are enriched with etymological information specifying their origins, adopted from the Czech Etymological Lexicon,
(c) 8,867 new derivational and 1,262 new compound relations have been identified, resulting in a total of 791,771 derivational and 7,598 compound relations, and
(d) the morphological segmentation and classification of morphs have been significantly enhanced.
This paper discusses the etymological nest of Dravidian and Altaic lexemes with the meaning “to bow, bend” and the terms for the “elbow,” “knee,” “ankle” as a dynamic etymological model. The lexemes have the general formal structure of the CVC- root with an initial dental (stop or nasal) and medial velars or labials. In the first section of the paper the verbs and some of their derivatives are listed and discussed also with regards to several overlapping etyma with different meanings. The second section sums up the terms for the body parts related etymologically to the respective verbs. In the conclusion select Altaic reconstructions are listed for comparison.
This paper discusses the etymological nest of Dravidian and Altaic lexemes with the meaning “to bow, bend, stoop, incline, curve. ” The paper is divided into two parts according to the formal structure of the root. The first part deals with etyma, whose roots have initial labial p-/b-/v-/m- (variants with initial n-!) in the CVC- root, medial velar stops, and nasals or nasal-stop groups. The second part adds the VC- roots, i.e. those in which the initial labial consonant is missing while the medial is a velar or labial consonant of the same structure (a stop, a nasal, or the respective nasal-stop group). It concludes with a note on the borrowings in IA related to this group of Dravidian lexemes.