tečka
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From the Czech tečka (“dot, point, spot; period, full stop; tittle; dot (diacritic), tečka”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: tĕchʹkə, IPA(key): /ˈtɛt͡ʃkə/
- (UK) enPR: tĕchʹkă, IPA(key): /ˈtɛt͡ʃka/
Noun
[edit]tečka (plural tečky)
- (rare, only in reference to the diacritic’s historical use in Czech, superseded by the háček) A dot diacritic (used to mark consonantal palatalisation).
- 1977, Folia Slavica, I-II, page 82:
- Unsystematic use of diacritics (the háček (ˇ), čárka (´), tečka (˙)) marks the Strahov copy…as no earlier than mid-15th century.
Coordinate terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]tečka diacritic — see dot
Czech
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Coined during Czech National Revival, based on Russian то́чка (tóčka), sharing origin with tknout, týkat.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]tečka f
- dot, point, spot
- period, full stop (at the end of a sentence)
- tittle (such as over i and j)
- dot (diacritic), tečka
Declension
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Descendants
[edit]- English: tečka
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Jiří Rejzek (2007) “tečka”, in Český etymologický slovník (in Czech), Leda
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