Czechism

English

Etymology

From Czech +‎ -ism.

Noun

Czechism (countable and uncountable, plural Czechisms)

1. (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.

2. (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.

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

• Polish: bohemizm (pl) m, czechizm (pl) m