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).
