Word origins

• benchA long seat with or without a back, found for example in parks and schools.
• levyTo impose (a tax or fine) to collect monies due, or to confiscate property.
• NovakA surname.
• polkaA lively dance originating in Bohemia.
• KutaA surname.
• HaberA surname from German.
• LomA nomadic people related to the Rom and Dom, with origins in India, who reside in Transcaucasia; Caucasian Gypsies.
• MuchaA surname from Czech.
• PlzenPilsen (a city in the Czech Republic).
• PavlikA surname from Czech.
• CernyA surname from Czech.
• kralA surname.
• FlachA surname.
• MoravecA surname from Czech.
• SovaA surname from Czech.
• KubikA surname.
• KomarA surname.
• KolinA village in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland.
• SoukupA surname from Czech.
• VeselyA surname from Czech.
• BarchA surname.
• machanA kind of safety platform in a tree, used when hunting large animals or to escape a flood; found most commonly in Indian jungles.
• PolanskyA surname.
• SlavikA surname.
• SvecA surname.
• StehlikA surname.
• HudecA surname from Czech.
• SuchyA surname.
• OcasekA surname from Czech.
• KrejciA surname from Czech.
• OpavaA city in the Czech Republic.
• SevcikA surname.
• CervenkaA surname from Czech.
• DanekA surname.
• ChizekA surname.
• CervenyA surname from Czech.
• KubicekA surname.
• BilyA surname.
• KuchtaA surname.
• KubalaA surname.
• MikulovA town in Břeclav District in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic; formerly an important centre for Moravian Jewry.
• AšA city in the western Czech Republic.
• BrabetzA surname from Czech.
• Český BrodA town in Kolin district, Central Bohemia, Czech Republic.
• Cesky terrierA well-muscled, short-legged breed of hunting terrier.
• Český TěšínA town in the Czech Republic.
• ChapekA surname from Czech.
• CharwatA surname from Czech.
• ChvatalA surname from Czech.
• ChwatalA surname from Czech.
• DěčínA city in the northern Czech Republic, on the River Elbe.
• DvorakianOf, relating to, or characteristic of Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904), Czech composer of Romantic music.
• HarvatA surname.
• HrdlickaA surname from Czech.
• KacerA surname from Czech.
• KachmarA surname.
• Karlovy VaryA spa city, district, and administrative region located in western Bohemia, Czech Republic; formerly known as Karlsbad.
• KmochA surname from Czech.
• KopacA surname from Czech.
• KostalA surname from Czech.
• KotchkoA surname from Czech.
• KrcmarA surname.
• KrnovAn Upper Silesian town on the River Opava in the northeastern Czech Republic, near the Polish border.
• kroužekA ring-shaped diacritical mark (˚), whose use is largely restricted to Å, å and Ů, ů, and whereon it represents an etymological ‘o’.
• LysyA surname.
• MashekA surname.
• MaulisA United States surname from Czech, the Americanised form of the Czech Moulis
• MazdraA surname.
• NáchodA town and district of Hradec Králové, Czech Republic.
• naprapathyA branch of alternative medicine, a manipulative therapy that focuses on the evaluation and treatment of neuromusculoskeletal conditions.
• NawratilA surname from Czech.
• OtrubaA surname from Czech.
• PisarA surname.
• PleskotA surname from Czech.
• PřerovA city and district in Olomouc Region, Czech Republic.
• PrikrylA surname from Czech.
• RehorA surname from Czech.
• RomackA surname from Czech.
• RosinskyA surname.
• RychlyA surname.
• SlavicekA surname.
• SlavickA surname.
• SmudaA surname.
• TaboriteA radical Hussite; an adherent of radical Hussitism at the time of the Bohemian Reformation, who rejected the unique authority of the Catholic Church in matters of faith and was considered heretical.
• TlustyA surname from Czech.
• VorisekA surname from Czech.
• VotrubaA surname from Czech.
• VrabecA surname.
• WotrubaA surname from Czech.
• WrabetzA surname.
• WywodaA surname from Czech.
• YandaA surname from Czech.
• ZikeA surname from Czech.
• ZlínA city in southeastern Moravia, Czech Republic, on the Dřevnice River.