hoľa

See also: Appendix:Variations of "hola"

Slovak

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *golja, from Proto-Slavic *golъ. First attested in the 14th century.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɦɔʎa/, (high register) [ˈɦɔʎa], (common) [ˈɦɔla]
  • Rhymes: -ɔʎa
  • Hyphenation: ho‧ľa

Noun

hoľa f (relational adjective hôľny)

  1. a mountain without trees on the top

Declension

Declension of hoľa
(pattern ulica)
singularplural
nominativehoľahole
genitiveholeholí,
hôľ
dativeholiholiam
accusativehoľuhole
locativeholiholiach
instrumentalhoľouhoľami

Descendants

  • Polish: hala

References

  1. ^ Králik, Ľubor (2016), “hoľa”, in Stručný etymologický slovník slovenčiny [Concise Etymological Dictionary of Slovak] (in Slovak), Bratislava: VEDA; JÚĽŠ SAV, →ISBN, page 202

Further reading

  • hoľa”, 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