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Czech Abbreviations and Words
as found in the
Moravian Immigrant Database (MID)

Posted as a gift of goodwill
for the benefit of Moravians worldwide
by MHS cofounders Thomas W. Hrncirik and
Helene Cincebeaux of the Moravian Heritage Society
and John Movius

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Latest Update: 18 February 2001

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Czech abbreviations and words as found in Tam za moem je Amerika and the MID:

Note: These translations were contibuted to this web page by Tom Hrncirik, A.G., Duncan Gardiner C.G., A.G., and those marked * by Jan Krys of Bruno, Czech Republic

dcera - daughter
delnik - laborer
deti - children
fotograf - photographer
Janml. (from file M-R) = Jan mladsi - John Jr.
Janst. (from file M-R) = Jan starsi - John Sr.
Katolickyknez - (Roman) Catholic (Priest - Knez)
klempir - tinsmith
Kolar - wheelmaker (not stolar)
kovar - blacksmith
krejci - tailor
kupec - merchant, buyer
matka - mother
mazelka - wife
mlynar - miller*
more - the sea*
nadenik - day laborer
nelze s urcitosti dolozit - "it is not possible to report with certainty"
pasak - herdsman, cowherd, shepard*
pasekar - farmer
pekar - baker
rolnik - farmer
roz. = rozena - maiden name of a woman
srod. = srodinou - with family
starosta - mayor
svobodna - single girl or woman*
svobodny - single boy or man*
tkadlec * - weaver
tkalcovsky pomocnik - weaver's helper
vratil se (infinitive) - returned, reverted, recurred*
Zamecnik * - locksmith

* This Czech word is not in current use (old - obsolete).

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