pendlovky

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FWOTD – 10 March 2018
Pendlovky

Etymology

From the verb pendlovat (“shuttle”) +‎ -ka + inflectional suffix -y. The verb comes from German pendeln (“shuttle”), from Pendel (“pendulum”), from Latin pendulum, from pendēre (“hang”).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

pendlovky f pl

  1. pendulum clock in a long windowed case
    • 1995, Zdenek Martínek, “Časoměrná technika”, in Studie o technice v českých zemích‎, volume 2, Praha: Národní technické muzeum, →ISBN, page 646:
      Trvalým článkem jeho výrobní náplně byly tzv. pendlovky, tj. nástěnné hodiny v dlouhé zasklené skříni.
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Declension

Declension of pendlovky (pl-only hard feminine reducible)
plural
nominative pendlovky
genitive pendlovek
dative pendlovkám
accusative pendlovky
vocative pendlovky
locative pendlovkách
instrumental pendlovkami

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Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Rejzek, Jiří (2015) “pendlovat”, in Český etymologický slovník (in Czech), 3rd (revised and expanded) edition, Praha: LEDA, →ISBN, page 506

Further reading

  • “pendlovky”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • “pendlovky”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
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