Der Name Čech ‚Tscheche‘
Titel Lětopis 69, 2022, Heft 2
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Keywords

Ethnonym
tribe names
etymology of the name “Czech”
etymological dictionaries of Czech

Abstract

The Name Čech ‚Czech‘

This essay about the name Čech has been written in response to the explanation of this ethnonym in the latest Czech etymological dictionary by J. Rejzek. This author offers several possible explanations, but none of them seems to be convincing. The only one that might be correct is the derivation from a full name Česlav from Proto-Slavic *Čьstьslavъ, where the initial open syllable Če- was supplemented by the hypocoristic suffix -ch.

https://doi.org/10.59195/lp.2022.69-233
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