socha

== Czech == === Etymology === Inherited from Old Czech *socha meant “mast, pillar, column” and was derived from Proto-Slavic *soxa (“crotch of a tree, trunk ending with a branch stub”) with unsure origins. The current Czech and Slovak meaning derives from the fact such pillars in homes were ornamented with wood carvings. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ˈsoxa] === Noun === socha f (diminutive soška) (sculpture) statue (art, sculpture) sculpture (work of art) Socha malého chlapce. ― A statue of a little boy. ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === References === === Further reading === “socha”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957 “socha”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989 “socha”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026 == Lower Sorbian == === Etymology === From Proto-Slavic *soxa, from Proto-Indo-European *sokh₂o-. Cognate with Upper Sorbian socha, Polish socha, Czech socha (“statue, sculpture”), Serbo-Croatian soha, and Ukrainian соха (soxa). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈsɔxa/ === Noun === socha f (diminutive soška) crotch of a tree branched support pole ==== Declension ==== === Further reading === Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928), “socha”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008 Starosta, Manfred (1999), “socha”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag == Polish == === Etymology === Inherited from Old Polish socha, from Proto-Slavic *soxa. === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -ɔxa Syllabification: so‧cha Homophone: Socha === Noun === socha f (diminutive soszka) (agriculture) sokha (wooden architecture) vertical forked post (Łowicz, architecture) support (vertical beam supporting a wallboard in a barn) (dialectal) Y-shaped tree trunk or branch (Western Greater Poland, Przemyśl) pole of a well ==== Declension ==== === Further reading === “socha”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎[1] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN “socha”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[2] (in Polish) Oskar Kolberg (1877), “socha”, in “Rzecz o mowie ludu wielkopolskiego”, in Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowéj (in Polish), volume 1, III (Materyjały etnologiczne), page 28 Aleksander Saloni (1908), “socha”, in “Lud rzeszowski”, in Materyały Antropologiczno-Archeologiczne i Etnograficzne‎[3] (in Polish), volume 10, Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, page 341 Halina Świderska (1929), “soχa”, in Dialekt Księstwa Łowickiego (in Polish), Warsaw, →ISBN, page 133 == Slovak == === Etymology === Inherited from Proto-Slavic *soxa. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /sɔxa/, [ˈsɔxa] Rhymes: -ɔxa Hyphenation: so‧cha === Noun === socha f (relational adjective sošný or sochový, diminutive soška or sôška) statue sculpture (work of art) ==== Declension ==== ==== Related terms ==== sochár sochársky sochárstvo sošne sošnosť === Further reading === “socha”, 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, 2003–2026