Re:Czech-ova/ovà

[Mila Saskova-Pierce]

As I remember from Jirasek's historical works, he makes the distinction -ov

>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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Dr. Mila Saskova-Pierce
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