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Czech
Etymology
Inherited from Old Czech okolo, from Proto-Slavic *okolo.
Pronunciation
Preposition
okolo
- round
- Šel okolo našeho domu. ― He went around our house.
Adverb
okolo
- round
- Šel jenom tak okolo. ― He just only went around.
Further reading
- “okolo”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
- “okolo”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
- “okolo”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *okolo.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ôkolo/
- Hyphenation: o‧ko‧lo
Adverb
ȍkolo (Cyrillic spelling о̏коло)
- around
Preposition
ȍkolo (Cyrillic spelling о̏коло) (+ genitive case)
- around
- okolo kuće ― around the house
Further reading
- “okolo” in Hrvatski jezični portal
- “okolo” in Hrvatski jezični portal
Slovak
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *okolo.
Pronunciation
Preposition
okolo (+ genitive)
- around
- in the neighborhood of
- Okolo Súče vodička tečie. ― In the neighborhood of Súča water flows.
Further reading
- “okolo”, 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, 2024