háček
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑːt͡ʃɛk/
enpr: häʹchĕk
ipa: [ˈhɑːt͡ʃɛk]
ipa: [ˈhɑt͡ʃɛk]
ipa: [ˈhɑət͡ʃɛk]
ipa: [ˈhaːt͡ʃɛk]
ipa: [ˈhaːt͡ʃek]
ipa: [ˈhɐːt͡ʃek]
ipa: [ˈɦɑːt͡ʃɛk]
ipa: /ˈhæt͡ʃɛk/
enpr: hăʹchĕk
ipa: [ˈhæt͡ʃɛk]
ipa: [ˈhat͡ʃɛk]
rhymes: -ɑːtʃɛk
rhymes: -ætʃɛk
Forms: form: háčeks
form: háčky
form: haček
form: hacek
form: hachek
form: haċek
form: hatcheck
form: hatschek
form: hatchek
form: hacheck
form: hac̬ek
form: haczek
form: hácek
form: haĉek
form: haceck
Etymology: First attested in 1951; from the Czech háček (“háček”, literally “little hook”), the diminutive of hák (“hook”) (from Middle High German hāken, from Old High German hāko (“hook”), from Proto-Germanic *hakô (“hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *keg-, *keng- (“peg, hook”)) + the diminutive suffix -ek. Cognate with and formed like English hooklet and German Häkchen. Also cognate with Old English haca (“hook, door-fastening”) and modern English hake (more information below).
Senses: examples: text: The caret (ˇ), háček, is used over the following consonants: c, d, n, t, r, s, and z to indicate the soft sound.
ref: 1948, Bohumil Emil Mikula, Progressive Czech (Bohemian), page 6:
text: Linguistic forms had to be set in ordinary roman type and the capital C of Cäxa had to be left without a háček.
ref: 1951, Hans Jakob Polotsky, Notes on Gurage Grammar, page 5:
text: Good Teutonic Kitsch looks rather forlorn and out of place wearing a Bohemian háček over its shrunken hind quarters. But the high traditions of scholarship must be maintained, and on these pages Meester Kitsch will masquerade as Mr. Kič.
ref: 1956, Morris Halle, editor, For Roman Jakobson, page 332:
text: In the system used here and elsewhere in this article for Bantu tone, low syllables are unmarked, high syllables have an acute accent, and rising syllables a haček respectively; thus a, á, ǎ.
ref: 1966, Charles Ernest Bazell et al., editors, In Memory of J.R. Firth, page 205:
text: The printer had no hatchek — the flattened “v” that appears over letters in Czech — to put over Dvořak’s R. So somebody laboriously inked in all the hatcheks.
ref: 1991, Peter Hugh Reed, American Record Guide, LIV:ii, page 69:
text: háček used to signify the third tone (wǔ — ‘five’)
ref: 2002, Torbjörn Lundmark, Quirky QWERTY, page 34:
text: Another orthographic practice […] was developed […] in the twentieth century: this is the adoption of the hacek for the representation of the Cypriot postalveolar fricatives and affricates, which are otherwise not distinguished by the normal characters of the Greek alphabet alone. It was not until very recently, therefore, that the spellings <σ̌>, <τσ̌>, <ζ̌> and <τζ̌>, for [ʃ], [tʃ], [ʒ] and [dʒ] respectively, became available.
ref: 2005, Stavroula Varella, Language Contact and the Lexicon in the History of Cypriot Greek, page 46:
text: My father always wrote Bětik with a little “v” called haĉek, above the “e”; Marušaks placed the haĉek above the “s”.
ref: 2006, Mary Betik Trojacek, Beyond Ellis Island, page 17:
text: For examples of the usage of other forms of this term see Citations:háček, Citations:haček, Citations:hacek, Citations:haċek, Citations:hachek, Citations:hatcheck, Citations:hatschek, Citations:hǎcek, Citations:hatchek, Citations:hacheck, Citations:hac̬ek, Citations:haczek, Citations:háçek, Citations:hácek, Citations:haĉek, Citations:haceck and Citations:háčky.
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glosses: A caron; a diacritical mark (ˇ) usually resembling an inverted circumflex, but in the cases of ď, Ľ, ľ, and ť resembling an apostrophe (’) instead.
Synonyms: word: caret
word: caron
word: chevron
english: when used in Romani
translation: when used in Romani
word: čiriklo
word: clicka
word: hat
word: hook
word: inverted caret
word: inverted circumflex
word: inverted hat
english: when used in Slovak
translation: when used in Slovak
word: mäkčeň
english: when it takes the form of a prime
translation: when it takes the form of a prime
word: palatal hook
english: when used in Slovene
translation: when used in Slovene
word: strešica
word: wedge
word: wing
Coordinate terms: sense: diacritics used in Latin-derived scripts
alt: above (´); below (ˏ), double (˝)
word: acute accent
sense: diacritics used in Latin-derived scripts
alt: ʼ
word: apostrophe
sense: diacritics used in Latin-derived scripts
alt: above (˘); below ( ̮)
word: breve
sense: diacritics used in Latin-derived scripts
alt: ̪
word: bridge
sense: diacritics used in Latin-derived scripts
alt: ̐
word: candrabindu
sense: diacritics used in Latin-derived scripts
alt: ¸
word: cedilla
sense: diacritics used in Latin-derived scripts
alt: above (ˆ); below ( ̭)
word: circumflex
sense: diacritics used in Latin-derived scripts
alt: above right ( ̕); below ( ̦), reversed (ʽ), turned (ʻ)
word: comma
sense: diacritics used in Latin-derived scripts
alt: above (¨); below ( ̤)
word: diaeresis
sense: diacritics used in Latin-derived scripts
alt: overdot (˙); underdot ( ̣)
word: dot
sense: diacritics used in Latin-derived scripts
alt: above (`), below (ˎ), double ( ̏)
word: grave accent
sense: diacritics used in Latin-derived scripts
alt: left (ʿ); right (ʾ)
word: half ring
sense: diacritics used in Latin-derived scripts
alt: above ( ̉); palatal ( ̡), retroflex ( ̢), rhotic (˞)
word: hook
sense: diacritics used in Latin-derived scripts
alt: ̛
word: horn
sense: diacritics used in Latin-derived scripts
alt: above ( ̑); below ( ̯), double ( ͡ )
word: inverted breve
sense: diacritics used in Latin-derived scripts
alt: ̺
word: inverted bridge
sense: diacritics used in Latin-derived scripts
alt: ̫
word: inverted double arch
sense: diacritics used in Latin-derived scripts
alt: ̚
word: left angle
sense: diacritics used in Latin-derived scripts
alt: single ( ̲); double ( ̳)
word: low line
sense: diacritics used in Latin-derived scripts
alt: above (¯); below (ˍ)
word: macron
sense: diacritics used in Latin-derived scripts
alt: ˗
word: minus
sense: diacritics used in Latin-derived scripts
alt: ˛
word: ogonek
sense: diacritics used in Latin-derived scripts
alt: single (‾); double ( ̿)
word: overline
sense: diacritics used in Latin-derived scripts
alt: ˖
word: plus
sense: diacritics used in Latin-derived scripts
alt: above (˚); below ( ̥)
word: ring
sense: diacritics used in Latin-derived scripts
alt: ̼
word: seagull
sense: diacritics used in Latin-derived scripts
alt: long ( ̸); short ( ̷)
word: solidus
sense: diacritics used in Latin-derived scripts
alt: ̻
word: square
sense: diacritics used in Latin-derived scripts
alt: long ( ̶); short ( ̵)
word: stroke
sense: diacritics used in Latin-derived scripts
alt: down (˕); left ( ̘), right ( ̙), up (˔)
word: tack
sense: diacritics used in Latin-derived scripts
alt: above (˜); below ( ̰), double ( ͠ ), middle / overlay ( ̴), vertical ( ̾)
word: tilde
sense: diacritics used in Latin-derived scripts
alt: ¨
word: umlaut
sense: diacritics used in Latin-derived scripts
alt: above (ˈ); below (ˌ), double ( ̎)
word: vertical line
sense: diacritics used in Latin-derived scripts
alt: ˣ
word: x
sense: Czech diacritics
roman: ´
word: čárka
sense: Czech diacritics
roman: ˚
word: kroužek
sense: Czech diacritics
roman: ˙
word: tečka
Derived terms: topics: optics
physics
engineering
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: háček coefficient
word: háček language
word: háčekless
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