drť

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See also: drt, DRT, and ḏrt

Czech

Etymology

Inherited from Old Czech drt (crushed material),[1] from Proto-Slavic *dьrati, from Proto-Indo-European *der-.[2] See also the verb drát.

Pronunciation

Noun

drť f

  1. disintegrated or crushed material, for example grit
    • 1869, Filip Stanislav Kodym, Úvod do hospodářství: hospodářská čítanka, Praha: Mikuláš & Knapp, pages 8–9:
      Mezi tím co jemná mrť se tvořila, nezůstala ovšem ve spod skála na pokoji. Pukřila pomalu, rozpadajíc se v drobty a prach či jedním slovem, v drť.
      While fine soil was being created, the rock underneath did not stay still. It was decaying slowly, being disintegrated into crumbs and dust or, in one word, grit.

Declension

References

  1. ^ Rejzek, Jiří (2015) “drtit”, in Český etymologický slovník [Czech Etymological Dictionary] (in Czech), 3rd (revised and expanded) edition, Praha: LEDA, →ISBN, page 158
  2. ^ Rejzek, Jiří (2015) “drát”, in Český etymologický slovník [Czech Etymological Dictionary] (in Czech), 3rd (revised and expanded) edition, Praha: LEDA, →ISBN, page 156

Further reading

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

Verb

drť

  1. second-person singular imperative of drtit