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okolo

See also: około, ôkoło, około-, and òkòło

Czech

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Etymology

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Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₃ebʰi
Proto-Balto-Slavic *ab
Proto-Slavic *o(b)
Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Slavic *kolo
Proto-Slavic *okolo
Old Czech okolo
Czech okolo

    Inherited from Old Czech okolo, from Proto-Slavic *okolo, from *o(b) + *kolo.[1]

    Pronunciation

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    • IPA(key): [ˈokolo]
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    Preposition

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    okolo [with genitive]

    1. around
      Šel okolo našeho domu. ― He went around our house.

    Adverb

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    okolo

    1. around
      Šel jenom tak okolo. ― He just only went around.
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    Serbo-Croatian

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    Etymology

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    Inherited from Proto-Slavic *okolo.

    Pronunciation

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    • IPA(key): /ôkolo/
    • Hyphenation: o‧ko‧lo

    Adverb

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    ȍkolo (Cyrillic spelling о̏коло)

    1. around

    Preposition

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    ȍkolo (Cyrillic spelling о̏коло) [with genitive]

    1. around
      okolo kuće ― around the house

    Further reading

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    • “okolo”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026
    • “okolo”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

    Slovak

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    Alternative forms

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    Etymology

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    Etymology tree
    Proto-Indo-European *h₃ebʰi
    Proto-Balto-Slavic *ab
    Proto-Slavic *o(b)
    Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁-
    Proto-Indo-European *-os
    Proto-Slavic *kolo
    Proto-Slavic *okolo
    Slovak okolo

      Inherited from Proto-Slavic *okolo. By surface analysis, o + kolo.[2]

      Pronunciation

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      • IPA(key): /ɔkɔlɔ/, [ˈɔkɔlɔ]
      • Rhymes: -ɔlɔ
      • Hyphenation: o‧ko‧lo

      Preposition

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      okolo [with genitive]

      1. around
        Synonyms: vedľa, vôkol
      2. in the neighborhood of
        Okolo Súče vodička tečie. ― In the neighborhood of Súča water flows.

      References

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      1. ^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (2000), “*obkolъ/*obkolo/*obkola”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), volume 27 (*obgordja/*obgordjь – *oblězati), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 136
      2. ^ Králik, Ľubor (2016), “kolo”, in Stručný etymologický slovník slovenčiny [Concise Etymological Dictionary of Slovak] (in Slovak), Bratislava: VEDA; JÚĽŠ SAV, →ISBN, page 277

      Further reading

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      • “okolo”, 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, 2003–2026
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