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Czech

US/t͡ʃɛk/ fairly common

adjective

1.

of or relating to Czechoslovakia or its people or their language

  • “The Czech border”
  • “Czechoslovak nationalists”
  • “The Czechoslovakian population”

noun

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Origin

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

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