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Czech

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Czech Wikipedia has an article on:
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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈʒɛna]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: že‧na
  • Rhymes: -ɛna

Etymology 1

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Inherited from Old Czech žena, from Proto-Slavic *žena, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *génāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷḗn.

Noun

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žena f (related adjective ženský)

  1. woman
    Antonym: muž
  2. wife
    Synonyms: manželka, choť
    Antonyms: manžel, muž
Declension
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Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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žena

  1. masculine singular present transgressive of hnát

Further reading

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  • žena”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • žena”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
  • žena”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

Old Czech

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *žena, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *génāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷḗn.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): (13th CE) /ˈʒɛna/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /ˈʒɛna/

Noun

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žena f

  1. woman
  2. wife

Declension

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Descendants

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  • Czech: žena

Further reading

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Old Slovak

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *žena. First attested in 1460.

Noun

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žena f

  1. woman (adult female human)
  2. wife (female married partner)

Descendants

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Further reading

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  • Majtán, Milan et al., editors (1991–2008), “žena”, in Historický slovník slovenského jazyka [Historical Dictionary of the Slovak Language] (in Slovak), volumes 1–7 (A – Ž), Bratislava: VEDA, →OCLC

Serbo-Croatian

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Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *žena, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *génāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷḗn.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ʒěna/
  • Hyphenation: že‧na

Noun

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žèna f (Cyrillic spelling жѐна, diminutive žènica, relational adjective žènskī)

  1. woman
  2. wife

Declension

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Derived terms

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Further reading

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  • žena”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

Slavomolisano

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Etymology

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Inherited from Serbo-Croatian žèna, from Proto-Slavic *žena, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *génāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷḗn.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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žena f

  1. woman

Declension

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References

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  • Walter Breu and Giovanni Piccoli (2000), Dizionario croato molisano di Acquaviva Collecroce: Dizionario plurilingue della lingua slava della minoranza di provenienza dalmata di Acquaviva Collecroce in Provincia di Campobasso (Parte grammaticale).

Slovak

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Slovak žena, from Proto-Slavic *žena.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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žena f (related adjective ženský)

  1. woman
  2. wife

Declension

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Further reading

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  • žena”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2024

Slovene

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Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *žena, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *génāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷḗn.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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žéna f

  1. wife

Declension

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The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.
Feminine, a-stem
nom. sing. žêna
gen. sing. žêne
singular dual plural
nominative
(imenovȃlnik)
žêna žêni žêne
genitive
(rodȋlnik)
žêne žên žên
dative
(dajȃlnik)
žêni žênama žênam
accusative
(tožȋlnik)
žêno žêni žêne
locative
(mẹ̑stnik)
žêni žênah žênah
instrumental
(orọ̑dnik)
žêno žênama žênami
The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.
Feminine, a-stem, long mixed accent
nom. sing. žêna
gen. sing. žené
singular dual plural
nominative
(imenovȃlnik)
žêna žené žené
genitive
(rodȋlnik)
žené žená žená
dative
(dajȃlnik)
žêni ženáma ženàm
accusative
(tožȋlnik)
ženó žené žené
locative
(mẹ̑stnik)
žêni ženàh ženàh
instrumental
(orọ̑dnik)
ženó ženáma ženámi

See also

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Further reading

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  • žena”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
  • žena”, in Termania, Amebis
  • See also the general references