jazyk

Czech

Etymology

Inherited from Old Czech jazyk, from Proto-Slavic *ęzykъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *inźūˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s. Compare Polish język, Slovak jazyk, Russian язы́к (jazýk).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈjazɪk]
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: ja‧zyk

Noun

jazyk m inan (related adjective jazykový)

  1. (anatomy) tongue (the fleshy muscular organ in the mouth of a mammal)
  2. a thing resembling a tongue
  3. language (a method of interhuman communication)
  4. language, tongue (the conventional system of communication used by a particular community)
  5. language (the parlance of a particular specialist field)
  6. language (a particular style or manner of expression; idiom)

Declension

Synonyms

Derived terms

Further reading

  • jazyk in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • jazyk in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
  • jazyk in Internetová jazyková příručka

Old Czech

Alternative forms

  • zazyk

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ęzykъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *inźūˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (13th CE) /ˈjazɨk/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /ˈjazik/

Noun

jazyk m inan

  1. (anatomy) tongue (the fleshy muscular organ in the mouth of a mammal)
  2. language (a method of interhuman communication)
    býti jednoho jazykato be honest
    jazyk všakýall nations

Declension

Descendants

  • Czech: jazyk

Further reading

Old Slovak

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ęzykъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *inźūˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s. First attested in 1474.

Noun

jazyk m inan

  1. tongue (flexible muscular organ in the mouth that is used to move food around, for tasting and that is moved into various positions to modify the flow of air from the lungs in order to produce different sounds in speech)
  2. tongue (any long object resembling a tongue)
  3. language (body of words, and set of methods of combining them (called a grammar), understood by a community and used as a form of communication)

Descendants

References

  • Majtán, Milan et al., editors (1991–2008), “jazyk”, in Historický slovník slovenského jazyka [Historical Dictionary of the Slovak Language] (in Slovak), volumes 1–7 (A – Ž), Bratislava: VEDA, →OCLC

Slovak

Etymology

Inherited from Old Slovak jazyk, from Proto-Slavic *ęzykъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *inźūˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s. Compare Polish język, Czech jazyk.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈjazik]

Noun

jazyk m inan (genitive singular jazyka, nominative plural jazyky, genitive plural jazykov, declension pattern of dub)

  1. (anatomy) tongue (the fleshy muscular organ in the mouth of a mammal)
  2. a thing resembling a tongue
  3. language (a method of interhuman communication)
  4. language, tongue (the conventional system of communication used by a particular community)
  5. language (the parlance of a particular specialist field)
  6. language (a particular style or manner of expression; idiom)

Declension

Synonyms

Derived terms

References

  • jazyk”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

Upper Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *ęzykъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *inźūˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈjazɨk/

Noun

jazyk m inan

  1. (anatomy) tongue

Declension

Further reading

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