haček

or há·ček

[ hah-chek ]

nounPhonetics, Orthography.
  1. a diacritic (ˇ) placed over a letter in some languages, as Czech and Lithuanian, and in some systems of phonetic transcription, especially to indicate that a sound is palatalized.

Origin of haček

1
1950–55; <Czech háček, diminutive of hák hook <German; see hook1

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British Dictionary definitions for háček

háček

/ (ˈhɑːtʃɛk) /


noun
  1. a diacritic mark (ˇ) placed over certain letters in order to modify their sounds, esp used in Slavonic languages to indicate various forms of palatal articulation, as in the affricate č and the fricative trill ř used in Czech

Origin of háček

1
from Czech

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