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 ﻿expressed in the Slavonic languages, battle, bit-va, s.f.  Cf. bi-ti, to strike.

'o begin, začati. See ist conj., 4th class. The pres. is začnu, the n being explained by the existence of a nasal originally, as is the case with all verbs of this conjugation. The nasals existed in Old Slavonic, but have now dis- appeared except in Polish and some dialects of Bul- garian.

the rival king, vzdorokrál. Cf.

Russ. iBAopt, nonsense, to sit, seděli. in, na.

castle, hrad, s.m. at, při.

dinner, hostina, s.f.; host, a guest.

banquet, hostina skvostná (lit.

luxurious dinner), lord, pan, s.m.; lady,pani, s.f. a messenger, posel, m. from, od.

to come,přijeti. See irreg.verbs.

to remind, napomínali (use supine after the verb of motion, and see remarks on the supine, p. 35).

that, aby.

to hurry, pospíšili. for, pro.

omit 'men'; the gen. case of the possessive pronoun is sufficient.

bravery, udaiensivi, s.n. (lit. giving oneself up, self-aban- donment, u- dat.).

but, ale.

Frederick, Bedřich.

to take, think, brati (put nega- tive with verb according to the Bohemian idiom).

the matter, več, s.f.

pressing, pilný.

to go, jeti. See irregular verbs.

up to, to, al po {usque ad). Ob- serve the preposition po, fre- quently used in the Slavonic languages after verbs of motion.

dinner; here use tabule, table, s.f. to meet with, potkali se s (with

instr.). wild, divý.

soldiery, vojsko, collective sub- stantive.

to seek, hledali (lit. to look after).

a refuge, útočiště, s.n.; root tok-. Cf. previous remarks on termination -iště.

Prague, Praha. - Remember consonantal mutations, h be- comes z (see p. 3).