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Czech
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *xvastunъ.[1] From chvástat + -oun.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key):
- Hyphenation: chva‧s‧toun
Noun
chvastoun m anim (female equivalent chvastounka)
- braggart
Declension
Declension of chvastoun (hard masculine animate)
References
- ^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1981), “*xvastunъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 8 (*xa – *jьvьlga), Moscow: Nauka, page 8
Further reading
- “chvastoun”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
- “chvastoun”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
- “chvastoun”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)