povidla

Czech

Etymology

Possibly from vít (“to wind, roll”), meaning “something produced by stirring, mixing of a boiled fruit juice”.[1] An alternate etymology derives the word ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peu- (“to cleanse, purify”), in the sense “purified concoction”.[2]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈpovɪdla]

Noun

povidla n pl

  1. plum stew, powidl

Declension
Declension of povidla (pl-only hard neuter reducible)
plural
nominative povidla
genitive povidel
dative povidlům
accusative povidla
vocative povidla
locative povidlech
instrumental povidly

Descendants
  • → Austrian German: Powidl

References
  1. "povidla" in Jiří Rejzek, Český etymologický slovník, electronic version, Leda, 2007
  2. Machek, Václav (1968) Etymologický slovník jazyka českého [Etymological Dictionary of the Czech Language], 2nd edition, Prague: Academia
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