čára
Appearance
See also: Appendix:Variations of "cara"
Czech
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Probably derived from čáry (“magic”), čarovat (“to conjure”), meaning a magical line, e.g. the delineation of a magic circle.[1] Possibly connected also with Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”).[2]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]čára f
- line
- threadlike mark of pen, pencil, or graver
Declension
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Machek, Václav (1968) Etymologický slovník jazyka českého [Etymological Dictionary of the Czech Language], 2nd edition, Prague: Academia
- ^ Jiří Rejzek (2007) “čára”, in Český etymologický slovník (in Czech), Leda