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Czech
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *xъtivъjь.[1]By surface analysis, chtít (“to want”) + -ivý.
Pronunciation
Adjective
chtivý (comparative chtivější, superlative nejchtivější, adverb chtivě)
- greedy
Declension
Declension of chtivý (hard)
Derived terms
References
- ^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1981), “*xъtivъjь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 8 (*xa – *jьvьlga), Moscow: Nauka, page 152
Further reading
- “chtivý”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
- “chtivý”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
- “chtivý” in Akademický slovník současné češtiny, 2012–2024, slovnikcestiny.cz
- “chtivý”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)