List of English words of Czech origin / Seznam anglickych slov prevzatych z cestiny
June 11, 2009
As I have said many times in the past, without the Czechs, people would be still dancing naked around the fire like they were in the Neanderthal era. This list is yet another proof of this: English words that were originated from the Czech language (take that!!!!):
CZ: Jak jsem rekla jiz mnohokrat v minulosti, bez Cechu by lide na celem svete stale tancovali jako neadrtalci kolem ohne. Nize uvideny list je toho dalsim dukazem: anglicka slova prevzata z ceskeho jazyka (diky za typ, Vlastiku!):
* Absurdistan (in Czech Absurdistán) - word created by Eastern Bloc dissidents, passed into English mainly through works of Václav Havel.
* Budweiser - after Budweis, the German name of Budějovice, a city in southern Bohemia
* dollar - from German thaler, a nickname for the silver coins that were minted from the ore found in Jáchymov in western Bohemia, called Joachimsthal in German (literally Joachim’s Valley)
* háček - a diacritical mark, literally “little hook”, e.g. č is letter c having háček. Also known as “caron”.
* howitzer - from houfnice, a 15th century Hussite catapult; houf meaning crowd or band
* kolache - from koláč or koláček. (more…)
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