See also: około, ôkoło, około-, and òkòło

Czech

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Czech okolo, from Proto-Slavic *okolo.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈokolo]
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Preposition

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okolo [with genitive]

  1. round
    Šel okolo našeho domu.He went around our house.

Adverb

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okolo

  1. round
    Šel jenom tak okolo.He just only went around.
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Further reading

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  • okolo”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935-1957
  • okolo”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
  • okolo”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *okolo.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ôkolo/
  • Hyphenation: o‧ko‧lo

Adverb

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ȍkolo (Cyrillic spelling о̏коло)

  1. around

Preposition

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ȍkolo (Cyrillic spelling о̏коло) (+ genitive case)

  1. around
    okolo kućearound the house

Further reading

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  • okolo” in Hrvatski jezični portal
  • okolo” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Slovak

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *okolo.

Pronunciation

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Preposition

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okolo (+ genitive)

  1. around
  2. in the neighborhood of
    Okolo Súče vodička tečie.In the neighborhood of Súča water flows.

Further reading

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  • okolo”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024