chřadnout

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Czech

Etymology

Inherited from Old Czech chřadnúti, from Proto-Slavic *xrędnǫti.[1]

Pronunciation

Verb

chřadnout impf (perfective zchřadnout)

  1. to waste away, to wither away, to pine away, to languish
    Synonyms: chátrat, scházet, slábnout, skomírat, hynout
    Bez vitamínů tělo chřadne.Without vitamins, the body withers.
    Město živořilo a chřadlo.(please add an English translation of this usage example)
    Květiny v přetopené místnosti chřadly.The flowers withered in the overheated room.

Conjugation

References

  1. ^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1981), “*xrędnǫti”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 8 (*xa – *jьvьlga), Moscow: Nauka, page 94

Further reading

  • chřadnouti”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • chřadnouti”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
  • chřadnout”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)