Re:Czech-ova/ovà

[Geoffrey Chew]

On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, Alina Israeli wrote:

> >Czech (and Slovak )language  doesn't distinguish between unmarried and
> >married form.It's only  one -ovà (long -à,)form for fem.surnames.
> >Katarina Peitlovà,Ph.Dr.
> 
> Was there ever (N)ova/ovna distinction for wife vs. daughter of N?

Not -ovna at all, but ova / ová (I realize of course that modern Czech
makes no distinction) -- so in Lothar Suchy's play "Sláva" (1905) we have
pan Bárta, paní Bártová, but slec^na Bártova (not Bártovna) -- despite
what Dr Peitlová writes.

 Geoffrey Chew
 Music Department, Royal Holloway, University of London
 Internet: chew at sun.rhul.ac.uk

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