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Czech
Etymology
Inherited from Old Czech lichva, from Proto-Slavic *lixva.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key):
- Hyphenation: lich‧va
Noun
lichva f
- usury
- Synonyms: lichvářství, úžera
Declension
Declension of lichva (hard feminine reducible)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “lichva”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
- “lichva”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
- “lichva”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)
Slovak
Pronunciation
Noun
lichva f
- bovine cattle
Further reading
- “lichva”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2024