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Czech
Etymology
Inherited from Old Czech smědý (where m changed into n probably because of the resemblance with hnědý (“brown”)), from Proto-Slavic *smědъ, whose origin is ambiguous. It might come from Proto-Indo-European *směh₁- (“to dirty”).[1]
Pronunciation
Adjective
snědý (adverb snědě)
- dark-skinned, swarthy
- Synonym: hnědý
2013, Richard Dostál, Smrt pána z Valdeka, Royen Trade, →ISBN, page 97:„Žofie ví jen to, že ten chlap sice mluvil velice dobře česky, ale trochu ráčkoval a jinak byl prý podivně snědý.“
„Snědý?“
„Ano tak to vypověděla, jakoby prý byl odněkud z východu.“- "Žofie only knows that the dude spoke Czech very well but mispronounced slightly ‚r‘ and also was strangely dark-skinned."
"Dark-skinned?"
"Yes, that's what she said, as if he was somewhere from the east."
Declension
Declension of snědý (hard)
Derived terms
References
- ^ Rejzek, Jiří (2015) “snědý”, in Český etymologický slovník [Czech Etymological Dictionary] (in Czech), 3rd (revised and expanded) edition, Praha: LEDA, →ISBN, page 645
Further reading
- “snědý”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
- “snědý”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
- “snědý”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)
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