zita kone

04:32 Oct 15, 2008
Czech to English translations [Non-PRO]
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Czech term or phrase: zita kone
I don't know what language this is.
Possibly this is a proper name, or an alias.
Please translate to English.
Quincy


Summary of answers provided
3ryes horses
Klara Hurkova
4 -1žito (žitá)>wheat >
Maria Chmelarova


  

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ryes horses


Explanation:
If you added some diacritic marks to the letters it would mean this. But it doesn't make much sense as it stands now. My first association was that this might be taken out of some old folk song, an unfinished part of a sentence.
But who knows - perhaps it is not in Czech at all. "Zita" could be a first name, "kone" is no typical Czech name.

Klara Hurkova
Local time: 17:04
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Native speaker of: Native in CzechCzech
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9 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): -1
žito (žitá)>wheat >


Explanation:
žito (sing.) žitá (pl.) do žita...where ?...into to ...

žito> today = wheat
kôň (sing.) kone (pl.) = horse, horses...
as Klara wrote, perhaps it is from some older folk song or some older letter....from 1930's and before....


Maria Chmelarova
Local time: 11:04
Native speaker of: Slovak
PRO pts in category: 8

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  Klara Hurkova: Podle českého slovníku (a také po srovnání s německým) je žito anglicky "rye" a "wheat" je pšenice. Z jakého pramene jste vycházela? (Plurál je "žita" - bez čárky)
23 hrs
  -> Ano, pokial to je v ceskom j. Pytajuci pise, " I don't know what l. this is...", tiez to moze byt slov. j.,... a zito kedysi je dnes psenica....
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