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Czech
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *piščalь, whence By surface analysis, *piščalь + *-ъka.
Cognate with Polish piszczałka, Serbo-Croatian pištaljka, Slovak píšťalka, Slovene piščalka, Carpathian Rusyn пищал'ка (pyščalʺka).
Pronunciation
Noun
píšťalka f (related adjective píšťalkový)
- whistle (device used to make a whistling sound)
Declension
Declension of píšťalka (hard feminine reducible)
Further reading
- “píšťalka”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
- “píšťalka”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
- “píšťalka”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)