How do you pronounce háček?

The recorded pronunciation is [ˈhɑt͡ʃɛk].

háček

[ˈhɑt͡ʃɛk]

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: hacek
IPA: [ˈhɑt͡ʃɛk]

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Meaning

noun

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.

name

A surname.

Example Sentences

"The caret (ˇ), háček, is used over the following consonants: c, d, n, t, r, s, and z to indicate the soft sound."
"Linguistic forms had to be set in ordinary roman type and the capital C of Cäxa had to be left without a háček."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"háček used to signify the third tone (wǔ — ‘five’)"

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).

Origin

Source language: Czech

Word Breakdown

Root: háček, hāken, hāko, *hakô, *keg-

Regional Pronunciation

American English: [ˈhɑt͡ʃɛk]
British English: /ˈhæt͡ʃɛk/

Inflected Forms

háčeks (plural) háčky (plural) haček (alternative) hacek (alternative) hachek (alternative) haċek (alternative) hatcheck (alternative) hatschek (alternative) hatchek (alternative) hacheck (alternative) hac̬ek (alternative) haczek (alternative)

Derived Forms

háčekless

Phrases

háček coefficient háček language Ǎǎ Čč Ďď Ěě Ǧǧ Ȟȟ Ǐǐ J̌ǰ Ǩǩ Ľľ Ňň Ǒǒ Řř Šš Ťť Ǔǔ Ǚǚ Žž Ǯǯ DŽDždž Ǆǅǆ

Frequently Paired Words

Ǎǎ Čč Ďď Ěě Ǧǧ Ȟȟ Ǐǐ J̌ǰ Ǩǩ Ľľ Ňň Ǒǒ Řř Šš Ťť Ǔǔ Ǚǚ Žž Ǯǯ DŽDždž Ǆǅǆ acute accent apostrophe breve bridge candrabindu cedilla circumflex

Synonyms

caret caron chevron čiriklo clicka hat hook inverted caret inverted circumflex inverted hat mäkčeň palatal hook