šnek

See also: snek

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from German Schnecke.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈʃnɛk]
  • Rhymes: -ɛk
  • Audio:(file)

Noun

šnek m anim

  1. (colloquial) snail (gastropod)
    Synonym: hlemýžď
  2. (colloquial) snail, sluggard (slow person)

Declension

Noun

šnek m inan

  1. (music) volute

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

Slovak

Etymology

Borrowed from German Schnecke. First attested in the 20th century.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ʃnek]

Noun

šnek m animal (relational adjective šnekový) (proscribed)

  1. worm drive
    Synonym: (prescriptive) závitovka

Declension

Declension of šnek
(patterns chlap (singular) and dub (plural))
singularplural
nominativešnekšneky
genitivešnekašnekov
dativešnekovišnekom
accusativešnekašneky
locativešnekovišnekoch
instrumentalšnekomšnekmi

References

  1. ^ Králik, Ľubor (2016) “šnek”, in Stručný etymologický slovník slovenčiny [Concise Etymological Dictionary of Slovak] (in Slovak), Bratislava: VEDA; JÚĽŠ SAV, →ISBN, page 587

Further reading

  • šnek”, 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, 2003–2025