Ližina a lyžina
On the Czech lexeme ližina/lyžina

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the orthography of the lexeme ližina ‘skid, roof rail e.g.’ and considers the possibility of a change in codification. Based on corpus evidence, it analyzes the semantic structure of the lexeme and compares the use of the codified form ližina and the non-codified form lyžina. The form lyžina, so far rejected, arose from the etymologically unfounded connection between the noun ližina and the noun lyže ‘ski’. Considering the persistence of the orthographic issue over several decades and the high proportion of the non-codified form in corpus data, this paper proposes that the form lyžina be accepted as an orthographic variant in the forthcoming Academic Dictionary of Contemporary Czech.

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