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Czech, Czekh, n. and a.|tʃɛk, tʃɛx|
Also Tshekh.
[Boh. Čech, Pol. Czech.]
The native name of the Bohemian people; Bohemian; the language of this people. Also = Czechoslovakian n. and a. Hence ˈCzechian, ˈCzechic, ˈCzechish adjs.
1841Prichard Phys. Hist. Mankind (ed. 3) III. 416 The Moravians are nearly akin to the Tschechi or Bohemians. 1850Latham Varieties of Man 539 Native name Tshekh (Czech). 1852― Ethnol. Europe 241 Both populations are Tshekh speaking the Tshekh language. 1866Engel Nat. Mus. vii. 265 The national dances of the Czechs. 1879Encycl. Brit. VIII. 701/2 Czech, or Tsekh, is the national language of Bohemia, and is also largely spoken in Moravia and north-western Hungary. 1883Nation XXXVI. 546 To reunite..Bohemia, Moravia, and Austrian Silesia into one Czechic realm. 1884Brit. & For. Evang. Rev. Oct. 618 Church historians both German and Czechish. 1938Times 24 May 12/5 My figure of 14,000 Czechs in Germany, which includes not only Czech-speakers but also bilinguals, does not refer to the small Czech-speaking proportion of the 186,000 Czechoslovak nationals resident in Germany. Ibid. 4 Oct. 7/1 Guarantees to the Czechs... His Majesty's Government would be prepared..to join in an international guarantee of the new boundaries of Czechoslovakia. 1957Encycl. Brit. VI. 951/2 The native home of the Czechs today lies in the Czechoslovak republic..in the western parts of which..they are the dominating and almost the sole population. |