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| dumka | a lament, a piece alternating between lively and sorrowful moods. Pl. DUMKY. |
| hacek | in Slavonic languages, a diacritic. |
| haler | a monetary unit of the Czech republic. Pl. HALERS or HALERU. Also HELLER. |
| heller | a Czech monetary unit. Also HALER. |
| koruna | a Czech monetary unit. Pl. KORUN, KORUNAS or KORUNY. |
| naprapathy | medical treatment by manipulation of spine, thorax or pelvis. [Czech naprava, correction]. |
| polka | A Bohemian dance or the tune for it; (verb) to dance this. [Perhaps Czech pulka half-step; or from Polish polka a Polish woman]. |
| redowa | a Bohemian dance. [Czech rejdovák, f. rejdovat turn or whirl round]. |
| robot | a mechanical man; a machine, now especially computer-controlled. [From Karel Capek's play RUR (1920)]. |