Czechism
English
Etymology
Czech + -ism
Noun
Czechism (countable and uncountable, plural Czechisms)
- (countable) A word or idiom of the Czech language (that has been borrowed by another language).
- Synonym: Bohemism
- 1987, Paul Wexler, Explorations in Judeo-Slavic Linguistics, page 168:
- Examples include East Slavicisms in Polish Yiddish (and vice versa) and Czechisms in Polish and Eastern Yiddish dialects.
- (uncountable, usually historical) Czech nationalism.
- 1980, Josef V. Polišenský, Aristocrats and the Crowd in the Revolutionary Year 1848:
- They regarded Thun as the representative of "Czechism" who had placed all his cards on the convocation of a national parliament.
- 1848, “On the Affairs of Europe”, in Macphail's Edinburgh ecclesiastical journal and literary review, page 355:
- There is unanimous feeling throughout Germany, that this Czechism ought to be put down, but it would be manifestly unjust, and consequently unwise, besides being a task beyond the power of Germany, under existing circumstances.
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Related terms
In -ism:
- Germanism
- Grecism
- Hebraism
- Hellenism
- Hispanism
- Italicism
- Japanism
- Latinism
In -icism:
- anglicism
- Gallicism
Translations
a word or idiom of the Czech language
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