Vianoce

Slovak

Etymology

Partial calque of German Weihnachten (“Christmas”) by phonetisation of the first part of the word and translating the second part of the word, Nacht (“night”) to noc (“night”), like in Czech Vánoce.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈvi̯anɔt͡sɛ/

Proper noun

Vianoce f pl (plural only)

  1. Christmas

Declension

Declension of Vianoce
(pattern ulica)
plural
nominativeVianoce
genitiveVianoc
dativeVianociam
accusativeVianoce
locativeVianociach
instrumentalVianocami

Derived terms

See also

References

  1. ^ Jiří Rejzek. Český etymologický slovník. Leda, 2001.

Further reading

  • “Vianoce”, 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, 2003–2026
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