Jerky

• Authors: Marta Koutová

Title variants

EN

On the Czech word jerky

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The article deals with the meaning, origin, pronunciation and use of the word jerky in the Czech language. The morphological properties of the word are illustrated with examples from the Czech National Corpus.

Keywords

CS

anglicismus; kolísání v rodě; neologismus; podstatné jméno látkové; podstatné jméno pomnožné; přejímka; rodová nejednoznačnost

EN

Anglicism; grammatical gender ambiguity; grammatical gender shift; loanword; material noun; neologism; plurale tantum

• Publisher: Institute of the Czech Language, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Naše řeč (Our Speech)
• Year: 2025
• Volume: 108
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 69-75
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Marta Koutová

• Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, v. v. i., Letenská 123/4, 118 51 Praha 1, Czech Republic